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"Dignity belongs to the conquered."
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"If you are going down with dignity, you will be admired as if you are going up!"

"Watching a person lose their dignity used to be uncomfortable, and now it's an expected part of the program that we're becoming comfortable with."

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

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

"There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble."

"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."

"There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means."
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"For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status."


"Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any selection of reality must, in certain circumstances, function as a deflection of reality."


"Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language."


"We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations."


"Creation implies authority in the sense of originator. The possibility of a 'Fall' is implied in a Covenant insofar as the idea of a Covenant implies the possibility of its being violated."
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