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"Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity."

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

"There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means."

"Some disappointments honor those who inspire them."

"All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable."
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"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."

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

"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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