Quote by Dag Hammarskjold
Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a my

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning. – Dag Hammarskjold

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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment. – Dag Hammarskjold

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When you say things like, We have to wipe out the Taliban, what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway. – Arundhati Roy

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Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives. – Daisaku Ikeda

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No other discipline has its portals so wide open to the general public as history. – Johan Huizinga, Men and Ideas

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History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. – Edward Gibbon

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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people. – Edmund Burke

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At the beginning of every winter people are careful to install storm windows. These extra panes of glass protect their houses against the bitter winds. We do something very similar to protect our minds through the practice of meditation. – Eknath Easwaran

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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt. – Woodrow Wilson

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