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"Dignity belongs to the conquered."
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"There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity."

"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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"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."


"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."


"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."


"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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