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

"What is called for is dignity. We need to set an example."

"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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"Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics."

"Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment."

"If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion."

"The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment."

"We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents."
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