"If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science."
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"As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it."
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"I think we need to treat everybody with dignity."
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"To be united to God in unity of person was not fitting to human flesh, according to its natural endowments, since it was above his dignity; nevertheless, it was fitting that God, by reason of his infinite goodness, should unite it to himself for human salvation."
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"Dignity increases more easily than it begins."
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"It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start."
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"You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider."
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"Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not."
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"Freedom and the dignity of the individual have been more available and assured here than in any other place on earth. The price for this freedom at times has been high, but we have never been unwilling to pay the price."
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"Non-co-operation is an attempt to awaken the masses to a sense of their dignity and power."
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"The Charkha supplemented the agriculture of the villagers and gave it dignity."
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"A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour."
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"If you are left with only one piece of homespun,wear it with dignity"
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"It is not true that there is dignity in all work. Some jobs are definitely better than others."
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"We need a free economy not only for the renewed material prosperity it will bring, but because it is indispensable to individual freedom, human dignity and to a more just, more honest society."
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"This is our lives. The way to give it dignity is to tell the truth."
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"Humour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man; that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game."
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"People in the countryside carry a sense of dignity. They wear it, don't they? Like a badge? I'm being genuine."
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"When you do stand-up, you're just concerned with trying to leave with some semblance of human dignity at the end of your performance."
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"There are so many low points with stand-up. You are perpetually humiliated, so it doesn't really matter anymore. I don't have any dignity left to lose. An audience can’t hurt you anymore when you’ve been completely dismantled."
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