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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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Dag Hammarskjold
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I dont know Who — or what — put the question, I dont know when it was put. I dont even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone –or Something –and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal. – Dag Hammarskjold

Category:
Enlightenment, The
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strength
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Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability. – Ho Chi Minh

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strength

We cant equate spending on veterans with spending on defense. Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And thats not just measured in words or gestures. – Jennifer Granholm

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strength

My strength is coming up with two outs in the last of the ninth. – Michael Eisner

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strength

So Europe needs to be competitive and we also need to be competitive if we wish to remain an interesting economic partner for the United States. This has to be done on the basis of strength, of competitiveness. – Angela Merkel

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strength

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Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is. – Francis Bacon

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Its really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is a strength. – Carson Kressley

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strength

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things it is rather not finding them in the familiar place. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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I am convinced, the longer I live, that life and its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed as when we are suffering greatly we are inclined to suppose. – Mary Todd Lincoln

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