Only one feat is possible: not to have run away. - Dag Hammarskjold

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Some of our important choices have a time line. If we delay a decision, the opportunity is gone forever. Sometimes our doubts keep us from making a choice that involves change. Thus an opportunity may be missed.

Dag Hammarskjold

Only one feat is possible: not to have run away.

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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.

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To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.

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For all that has been, Thanks. To all that shall be, Yes.

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Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each of us. To build for man a world without fear, we must be without fear. To build a world of justice , we must be just.

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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

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This is one of the glories of man, the inventiveness of the human mind and the human spirit: whenever life doesn't seem to give an answer, we create one.

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There is nothing that does not have something perfect in it; and it is the happiness of good taste to be able to find this perfection in all things. But there is a natural malignity that often discovers a vice in the midst of several virtues, in order to reveal and proclaim the discovery to all the world - a quality that is more the mark of a naturally evil temperament than a superior sense of discrimination. And it is truly an evil lot, to pass one's life always feeding off the imperfections of others.

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