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Embrace the beauty of your own uniqueness, for in a world full of copies, being an original is a true treasure.
Author:
Michelle Obama
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When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
Author:
Owen Young
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The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.
Author:
Minoru Yamasaki
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The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
Author:
William Wordsworth
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It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.
Author:
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Too many security officers live day to day. They just want to be treated with dignity.
Author:
John Wilson
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Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children.
Author:
Armstrong Williams
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Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.
Author:
Mae West
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I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.
Author:
Paul Wellstone
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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Author:
Booker Washington
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The defense of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.
Author:
Lech Walesa
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This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity.
Author:
Lech Walesa
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The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.
Author:
Lech Walesa
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Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with the captors, agreeing on each piece as you slowly put it together; then you leave an exit through which both the captor and the captive can walk with sincerity and dignity.
Author:
Terry Waite
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Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.
Author:
Samuel Ullman
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The door of conciliation and compromise is finally closed by our adversaries, and it remains only to us to meet the conflict with the dignity and firmness of men worthy of freedom.
Author:
Robert Toombs
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For the next century, the Republicans have agreed that we will promote the dignity and future of every individual by building a free society under a limited, accountable government that protects liberty, security and prosperity for a brighter American dream.
Author:
Todd Tiahrt
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Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.
Author:
Anne Swetchine
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Well, I think when we can turn to the person sitting next to us and really see them with kindness and see ourselves reflected back - when there's some dignity and compassion traveling back and forth.
Author:
Sharon Stone
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Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.
Author:
Sting
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Social Security is not just the foundation of America's retirement dignity and security, it ensures the economic stability and strength of our families and our state's economy.
Author:
Debbie Stabenow
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I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.
Author:
John Spong
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John the Baptist was supposed to point the way to the Christ. He was just the voice, not the Messiah. So everybody's calling has dignity to it and God seems to know better than we do what is in us that needs to be called forth.
Author:
James Somerville
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My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't.
Author:
Beverly Sills
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Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?
Author:
Sargent Shriver
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If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity.
Author:
William Shatner
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The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity.
Author:
Frank Serpico
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Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.
Author:
Budd Schulberg
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There is no dignity in television.
Author:
Adam Savage
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My dignity and good television - they'll never meet.
Author:
Adam Savage
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Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
Author:
George Santayana
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The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
Author:
George Santayana
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Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
Author:
George Santayana
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When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
Author:
Bayard Rustin
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I have always been a person who is concerned with the dignity of jazz music and the way jazz musicians have been treated and are treated, and the fact that the music has not been given the kind of due that it deserves.
Author:
Sonny Rollins
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Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.
Author:
Ludwig Rohe
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I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
Author:
John Rockefeller
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Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human persons.
Author:
Helen Prejean
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Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.
Author:
John Polanyi
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Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.
Author:
Luigi Pirandello
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It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world.
Author:
Elizabeth Phelps
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The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.
Author:
Pope Paul II
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Well, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity - and this includes being recognized as a part of the west and Europe.
Author:
Orhan Pamuk
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For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.
Author:
Olof Palme
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Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
Author:
Ovid
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America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
Author:
Barack Obama
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Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.
Author:
Richard Nixon
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
Author:
Frederica Montseny
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Because we should always respect other nationalities, I have always tried to play them with dignity.
Author:
Ricardo Montalban
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Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
Author:
H. Mencken
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
Author:
Herman Melville
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There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.
Author:
Herman Melville
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When will the day come that our dignity will be fully restored, when the purpose of our lives will no longer be merely to survive until the sun rises tomorrow!
Author:
Thabo Mbeki
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A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.
Author:
Henry Mayhew
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
Author:
W. Maugham
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True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.
Author:
Philip Massinger
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Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes.
Author:
George Mason
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An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.
Author:
Steve Martin
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To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.
Author:
Jose Marti
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Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
Author:
Jose Marti
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Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.
Author:
William Manchester
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Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.
Author:
Archibald MacLeish
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Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.
Author:
Flora Lewis
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The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.
Author:
T. Lawrence
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Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity.
Author:
Greg Lake
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That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.
Author:
Hans Kung
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Watching a person lose their dignity used to be uncomfortable, and now it's an expected part of the program that we're becoming comfortable with.
Author:
Lisa Kudrow
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Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.
Author:
Ronald Knox
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I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity.
Author:
Jeane Kirkpatrick
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All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Author:
Martin King, Jr.
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He worked for the day when all people would be clothed in dignity.
Author:
Don King
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Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.
Author:
Coretta King
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The honor of about 30 million votes remains with the Iranian nation and no enemy scheme would take away this dignity and honor from the Iranian nation.
Author:
Ayatollah Khamenei
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Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.
Author:
Ellen Key
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By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.
Author:
Immanuel Kant
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It's up to us to take pop culture back and to express quality and dignity for both boys and girls.
Author:
Ashley Judd
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It slaps your dignity just right. I loved the idea of these proud, dignified black men, and I saw the older ones wounded, and it wounded me ten times as much because I couldn't stand seeing them hurt like this.
Author:
Quincy Jones
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I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.
Author:
Michael Jackson
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There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
Author:
Washington Irving
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Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.
Author:
Bill Hybels
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Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
Author:
Aldous Huxley
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In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human beings, and to promote their fundamental rights, their dignity and liberty.
Author:
Claudio Hummes
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A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
Author:
Victor Hugo
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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
Author:
Herbert Hoover
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
Author:
Abbie Hoffman
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Author:
Abraham Heschel
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If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
Author:
Ernest Hemingway
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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
Author:
Helen Hayes
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There is only one terminal dignity - love.
Author:
Helen Hayes
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Not just Christians and Jews, but also Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and the followers of many other religions believe in values like peace, respect, tolerance and dignity. These are values that bring people together and enable us to build responsible and solid communities.
Author:
Alcee Hastings
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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
Author:
Dag Hammarskjold
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I left the room with silent dignity, but caught my foot in the mat.
Author:
George Grossmith
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A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.
Author:
George Grenville
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Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.
Author:
Vartan Gregorian
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I want to work on respecting individuals' dignity. Equal rights, that's where my heart is. That means equal rights and benefits, and that's what we need.
Author:
Christine Gregoire
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This is our lives. The way to give it dignity is to tell the truth.
Author:
Lee Grant
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Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.
Author:
Baltasar Gracian
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A people must have dignity and identity.
Author:
Andrew Goodman
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After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity.
Author:
Charlie Gonzalez
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Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.
Author:
Carl Gauss
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Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Author:
Romain Gary
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That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.
Author:
Helen Garner
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The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world.
Author:
J. Fulbright
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One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.
Author:
Michael Fox
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I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it.
Author:
Jodie Foster
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
Author:
E. Forster
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At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the worst treatment. The people who were doing the greatest work were despised as lower class, with no dignity accorded to what they did.
Author:
Henry Flynt
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My mission, I guess, has always been the kind of world where lesbian and gay people can celebrate who we are with equal freedom, dignity, and respect.
Author:
John Fisher
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Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement.
Author:
Johann Fichte
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Why do the people humiliate themselves by voting? I didn't vote because I have dignity. If I had closed my nose and voted for one of them, I would spit on my own face.
Author:
Oriana Fallaci
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I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence.
Author:
Thomas Erskine
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Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.
Author:
Wayne Dyer
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I still when I wake up hit the ground running; and having an illness, I'm only one of hundreds of thousands of people that live with an illness, and I'm just in awe of the bravery and dignity of the people I see at the hospital.
Author:
Karen Duffy
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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.
Author:
Denis Diderot
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Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
Author:
Charles Dickens
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The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.
Author:
Ruby Dee
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Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.
Author:
Charles Dawes
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There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.
Author:
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.
Author:
Mitch Daniels
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What is called for is dignity. We need to set an example.
Author:
Kenny Dalglish
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Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.
Author:
Noel Coward
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I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's happened to me with a certain amount of grace, dignity and good manners. You just can't necessarily win all the time.
Author:
Katie Couric
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There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
Author:
Calvin Coolidge
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To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.
Author:
Mason Cooley
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A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
Author:
Grover Cleveland
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All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.
Author:
Paul Claudel
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It is my hope and my belief that you will be able to report that I died with dignity, without animal fear and without bravado. I owe that much to myself.
Author:
Caryl Chessman
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From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.
Author:
Cesar Chavez
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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
Author:
William Channing
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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.
Author:
Marc Chagall
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Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we, as a people, assume responsibility?
Author:
Robert Casey
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To breathe life into history requires a mindfulness that resists glorifying violence, remembering instead the dignity found amid the chaos of everything we honor.
Author:
Ariadne Klarke
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Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.
Author:
Karel Capek
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I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.
Author:
Maria Callas
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America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.
Author:
George Bush
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Dignity belongs to the conquered.
Author:
Kenneth Burke
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For the sake of our interests, as well as of our honour and dignity, we were obliged to see that we won for our international policy the same independence that we had secured for our European policy.
Author:
Bernhard Bulow
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The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.
Author:
William Brennan
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
Author:
Barbara Boxer
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So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.
Author:
Bono
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Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.
Author:
Kjell Bondevik
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Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries.
Author:
Kjell Bondevik
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A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
Author:
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.
Author:
Erma Bombeck
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The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.
Author:
Steven Biko
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The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
Author:
Benazir Bhutto
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Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.
Author:
Jose Bergamin
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The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.
Author:
Edward Bellamy
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And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.
Author:
Carol Bellamy
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But, gentlemen, can any of us say that as a result of such overwhelming sacrifices of money, of men, of ideals, and of civil dignity the sense of security has indeed been attained?
Author:
Henry Bannerman
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Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.
Author:
Mikhail Bakunin
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It comes down to the way you treat people. When you treat people with dignity and respect all the time, you can work through anything.
Author:
John Bacon
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A penumbra of somber dignity has descended over his reputation.
Author:
James Atlas
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The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.
Author:
Mary Astell
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We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
Author:
Arthur Ashe
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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Author:
Aristotle
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As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti, to share in their suffering, help rebuild the country, moving from misery to poverty with dignity.
Author:
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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We treated all of the dead with dignity.
Author:
Harry Anderson
