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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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.Dag Hammarskjold
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.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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"Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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