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"The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others."
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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."
"There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity."
"A penumbra of somber dignity has descended over his reputation."
"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."
"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."
"You need to work even if it is a menial or dirty job, because every job is participating in the process of creation."
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"Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon."
"The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned."
"Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up."
"Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was."
"If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party."
"There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return."
"It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses."
"Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves."
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