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"Dignity belongs to the conquered."
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"Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency."

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

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

"If you are going down with dignity, you will be admired as if you are going up!"

"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."

"Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself."
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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."


"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."


"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."
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