"Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance."
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"We all need to treat each other with human dignity and respect"
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"If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married."
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"We got a right to climb out of the sewer and live like other people. We could start from scratch. Make every minute count twice for the one we lost."
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"Remember this - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life."
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"Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity and he will feel free."
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"Is everybody in?... Is everybody in?... Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin..."
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"Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity."
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"Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation."
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"I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it."
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"Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one's dignity."
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"Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings."
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"Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off."
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"There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings."
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"Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict. Only a just peace based on the inherent rights and dignity of every individual can truly be lasting."
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"Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to."
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"Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity"
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"Begging for acknowledgment, or even asking, diminishes dignity and diminishes power."
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"Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience."
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"How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven."
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