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Quote by George Santayana
Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand. - George

Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand. – George Santayana

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Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions. – George Santayana

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The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. – George Santayana

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Dignity belongs to the conquered. – Kenneth Burke

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Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for. – Robert Maynard

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Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself. – George Santayana

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Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny. – Ronald Knox

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