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Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it.
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Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
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