#dignity

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

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Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness. ↗

— Jose Marti

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To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity. ↗

— Jose Marti

#attend #busy #difficult #dignity #futile

A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure. ↗

— Herman Melville

#leisure #talk #work

I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

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I see a New York where people who are down on their luck can get back on the road to responsibility, a job and dignity. ↗

— Carl Paladino

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The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

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I think we need to treat everybody with dignity. ↗

— Rand Paul

#everybody #i #i think #need #think

I have a very good sense of tone, and it's possible to talk about very personal things and maintain a level of dignity and even privacy - to go to the place, to talk about it, but not get icky. ↗

— Jane Pauley

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