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"There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity."

"I left the room with silent dignity, but caught my foot in the mat."

"When you begin to run after miracles you dehumanize yourself."

"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."

"I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect."

"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."
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"The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself."

"The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity."

"We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves."

"What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice."

"It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be."

"Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered."

"Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world."
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