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"I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity."

"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."

"You must love and respect yourself enough to never be a victim under any circumstance."

"You need to work even if it is a menial or dirty job, because every job is participating in the process of creation."

"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."

"A penumbra of somber dignity has descended over his reputation."

"Through their teachings they dignify even the most mundane professions. According to them any profession or work that adds to the common good of man must be respected and it is dignified."

"What is called for is dignity. We need to set an example."
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"Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top."

"We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers."

"Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon."

"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."

"No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward."
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