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"If you are going down with dignity, you will be admired as if you are going up!"
"I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect."
"Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity."
"Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency."
Explore more quotes by Archibald MacLeish
"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."
"Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England."
"What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists."
"There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream."
"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."
"Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world."
"Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there."
"The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself."
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