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A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

  • -- Victor Hugo 维克多雨果

放债的比奴隶主还坏;因为主人只欠你一个人的债，债主却欠你的体面，并且能制伏你。

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While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.

虽然塔利班武装分子最初声称受到公约的保护，但由于他们没有遵守合法战斗人员的行为标准:穿制服、负责任的指挥结构和遵守战争法，他们失去了战俘的地位。

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It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world.

人们不可能忘记尊严，它标志着一个人成为工薪阶层的时刻。我觉得自己突然获得了对自己、对家庭、对世界的价值。

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A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.

绝食不是绝食。禁食服从神的命令。绝食抗议使上帝屈服于我们的要求。

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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.

真正的尊严是不因他人的冷漠而减少的尊严。

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