Dignity Quote by Raymond Chandler

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“Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had”

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Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don't have to concentrate. You don't have to react. You don't have to remember. You don't miss…

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There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.

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Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a…

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“Hammett was the ace performer... He is said to have lacked heart; yet the story he himself thought the most of [The Glass Key] is the record of a man's devotion to a friend. He was spare, frugal, hard-boiled, but he did over and over again what only the best writers can ever do at all. He wrote scenes that…

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She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.

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A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.

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Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley.

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“He [James Cain] is every kind of writer I detest...a Proust in greasy overalls, a dirty little boy with a piece of chalk and…

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It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.

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“I had been stalking the bluebottle fly for five minutes, waiting for him to sit down. He didn't want to sit down. He just wanted to do wing-overs and sing the prologue to Pagliacci. I had the fly swatter poised in midair and I was all set. There was a patch of bright sunlight on the corner of the desk…

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“A three-piece Mexican band was making the kind of music a Mexican band always makes. Whatever they play, it all sounds the same. They…

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Mostly I just kill time," he said, "and it dies hard.

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I take the responsibility of playing another ethnicity very, very seriously, and I promise myself and those people that I will represent them with…

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One achieves true human dignity only when one serves. Only he is great who subjects himself to taking part in the achievement of a…

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I speak not for myself, but so those without a voice can be heard. Those who have fought for their rights. Their right to…

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Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less they deserve…

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I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority. This view sustains a conception of human dignity insofar as it sees in each man a capacity for choosing his own behavior. And as it turned out, many subjects did, indeed, choose to reject the experimenter's…

Stanley Milgram

The dignity of man is in free choice.

Max Frisch

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One of the things I love about Africa is the amount of dignity and respect and humility you see all the time. You don't…

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It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he…

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Daily contact with some teachers is itself all-sided ethical education for the child without a spoken precept. Here, too, the real advantage of male over female teachers,especially for boys, is seen in their superior physical strength,which often, if highly estimated, gives real dignity and commands real respect, and especially in the unquestionably greater uniformity of their moods and their discipline.

G. Stanley Hall