Evan Esar Quotes
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I think a British icon is someone who conducts themself with real dignity: someone who is truly talented and modest. These are things that I would aspire to in my career.
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There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
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Silence is my dignity.
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Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.
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I was in chains all the time, 24 hours a day, for three years. I tried to wear those chains with dignity, even if I felt that it was unbearable.
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Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
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We treated all of the dead with dignity.
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I have little shame, no dignity - all in the name of a better cause.
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Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.
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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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The people in Tacloban have great dignity and deserve better than what they have gotten
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More truly characteristic of dissent is a dignity, an elevation, of mood and thought and phrase. Deep conviction and warm feeling are saying their last say with knowledge that the cause is lost. The voice of the majority may be that of force triumphant, content with the plaudits of the hour, and recking little of the morrow. The dissenter speaks to the future, and his voice is pitched to a key that will carry through the years.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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A financer is a pawnbroker with an imagination.
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Soberly and with the dignity that befits the United States Congress.
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I like to photograph people who have strength and dignity in their faces. Whatever life has done to them, it hasn’t destroyed them.
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If once a man has come to the idea of a service which is not purely moral, but is ...... In the kingdom of ends everything has either a price or a dignity. What has a price can be replaced by something else as its equivalent; what on the other hand is raised above all price and therefore admits of no equivalent has a dignity.
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A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man.
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America is a nation of immigrants, and we should treat those who come to our country with dignity and respect.
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Reading a Lydia Davis story collection is like reaching into what you think is a bag of potato chips and pulling out something else entirely: a gherkin, a pepper corn, a truffle, a piece of beef jerky.
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speaking in unknown languages, showing a disproportionate physical strength beyond one's natural capacity, the repulsion to sacred things, such as crucifix and prayers, and knowledge of events that have happened far away, in terms of times and places.
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I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.
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Literally, if you weren't the best in the world in my family, it wasn't impressive.
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If you want to know how little your dignity is worth, take it to the pawnbroker.
