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Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

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Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

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A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. ↗

— Grover Cleveland

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To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them? ↗

— Sargent Shriver

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Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity. ↗

— Rollo May

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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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When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises. ↗

— Angela Merkel

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If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life. ↗

— James A. Michener

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