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Of one starved survivor who wept before him, Kissinger reflected: “Human dignity, objective values have stopped at this barbed wire”—but “as long as conscience exists as a conception in this world you will personify it.”

From Slate • Nov. 30, 2023

The ISA hopes to increase the potential for similar experiences in surfing, by selecting five inspirational individuals, who will personify stories of goodwill on how surfing can change the life of a person.

From Time Magazine Archive

I 'm going to make a statue when I get home," she said,—"a statue which will personify Nevada, and represent the tameless, desolate, changeless, magnificent beauty and the self-sufficient loneliness of the desert.

From Deserted 1898 by Bellamy, Edward

I'm going to make a statue when I get home," she said—"a statue which will personify Nevada and represent the tameless, desolate, changeless, magnificent beauty and the self-sufficient loneliness of the desert.

From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science by Various

If Childe Harold personifies Lord Byron, who will personify the poet?

From My Recollections of Lord Byron by Jerningham, Hubert E. H. (Hubert Edward Henry), Sir