Quote by Dag Hammarskjold
The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law

The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the bodys total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form? – Dag Hammarskjold

Other quotes by Dag Hammarskjold

Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict. – Dag Hammarskjold

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History
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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. – Dag Hammarskjold

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Nature
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I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it. – Black Elk

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strength

Whatever I lack in size and strength and speed, I kind of make up for in being grittier. When it comes to something like basketball Im definitely not the best guy on the court, but I love elbowing and pushing people out or boxing them out. – Steven Yeun

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strength

The AFL-CIO is a structure that divides workers strength by allowing each union to organize in any industry, then bargain on its own, even when workers share a common employer. – Andy Stern

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From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power – a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase. – Alex Campbell

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Doesnt all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material? – Ellen Glasgow

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The smallest color of the smallest day:
Time is the school in which we learn,
Time is the fire in which we burn. – Delmore Schwartz

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Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life. – G.K. Chesterton

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We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities. – Henry Bolingbroke

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