Dag Hammarskjold Quotes

Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.

Dag Hammarskjold

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: diplomat
  • Nationality: swedish
  • Birth: July 29, 1905 - September 18, 1961

Topics

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If the adjustment made by a court can be accepted or not, it will be refused whenever the men can gain more by continuing the strike, with whatever of violence that involves.

John Bates Clark

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The kids put you on a pedestal. I didn't like it.

Tommy Rettig

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I just want to be known as a very normal person and be treated as that and be able to walk down the street like anyone else.

Michael Schumacher

WalkDownPersonWantStreetNormal

My only real claim to fame is that I was southern England show-jumping champion in 1966. The day after my father died, 'Horse & Hound' magazine tipped me as a future Olympic champion, and I took it seriously. You can only really enjoy something if you take it seriously.

Jonathan Dimbleby

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The reason I stopped music for a while and concentrated on theatre was that it was more conducive to parenting; having the days free was quite handy. I love them both. I hope I don't have to compromise one for the other.

Johnny Flynn

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Many countries - as well as cities, states and provinces - are taking global warming seriously and are working to reduce emissions and shift to cleaner energy sources.

David Suzuki

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A man is known by his works. That I have heard at many a funeral.

Winslow Homer

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Politics means competition, especially in senior positions. If you don't know that, you're not especially suited to politics.

Wolfgang Schauble

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I like making people laugh. It comes off and shines in everything I do.

William Shatner

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They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know.

Nikolai Gogol

GoodManThinkingLearnFarmerKnow

I would never and did not ever characterize myself as a hippie.

Richard Hayne

MyselfNeverHippieWouldDidEver

There's a new Mozart, a new Miles Davis, a new Misty Copeland, a new Matisse potentially languishing in a math class somewhere. If we fail to introduce them to art, we fail humanity.

Renee Elise Goldsberry

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