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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!"
"I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect."
"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."
"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."
"Without pride, man becomes a parasite " and there are already too many parasites."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations."
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