"It is more offensive to outshine in dignity than in personal attractions."
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"We will stand against violence and intimidation. We will stand for the rights and dignity of all human beings."
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"Life is a series of problems to figure out how to solve gracefully and with dignity. That is what life is and I can't see it any other way."
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"Money is a protection, a cloak; it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity."
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"There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God."
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"Human dignity demands courage to defend oneself."
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"Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well."
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"We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man."
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"The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness."
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"Allow us the dignity to fight for our own freedom"
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"The highest thoughts are those which are least dependent on language, and the dignity of any composition and praise to which it is entitled are in exact proportion to its dependency of language or expression."
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"The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual."
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"If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them."
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"[Something] does not rise to the dignity of error."
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"Shooting in Orlando is a sobering reminder that attacks on any American, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation, is an attack on all of us and on the fundamental values of equality and dignity that define us as a country. And no act of hate or terror will ever change who we are or the values that make us Americans."
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"[Humans'] capacity to intervene, to compare, to judge, to decide, to choose, to desist makes them capable of acts of greatness, of dignity, and, at the same time, of the unthinkable in terms of indignity."
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"The generous mind adds dignity to every act, and nothing misbecomes it."
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"Nothing is so essential as dignity…Time will reveal who has it and who has it not."
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"When I lost my friends, it was because I had used the power of giving on them recklessly. I swept into their lives with my big fat checkbook, and I erased years of obstacles for them overnight - but sometimes, in the process, I also accidentally erased years of dignity."
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"It is observable that God has often called men to places of dignity and honor when they have been busy in the honest employment of their vocation."
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