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• To me, the Republican Party is the real great tragedy of the last 25 years because there are lot of good and decent people and a lot of good political points [that have] come from the Republican Party in the post-war period, but it has been hijacked by these fundamentalist wackos.

  Alec Baldwin

  Real, War, Party

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• These women of mine are decent, simple human beings who have no other concern than that of their physical condition... it is as though one were watching through a keyhole.

  Edgar Degas

  Simple, Keyholes, Concern

  "Degas bronze for auction" by Maev Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2002.

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• Would God give a bird wings and make it a crime to fly? Would he give me brains and make it a crime to think? Any God that would damn one of his children for the expression of his honest thought wouldn't make a decent thief. When I read a book and don't believe it, I ought to say so. I will do so and take the consequences like a man.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Children, Believe, Book

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1898). “Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Including His Letters on the Chinese God--Is Suicide a Sin?--The Right to One's Life--etc. Etc. Etc”

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• Government never falls lower than when decent people dutifully excuse their leaders' sins.

  Tony Snow

  Fall, Government, People

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• We have to start thinking of America as a family. We have to stop screeching screeching at each other, stop hurting each other, and instead start caring for, sacrificing for and sharing with each other ... We cannot move forward if cynics and critics swoop down and pick apart anything that goes wrong, to a point where we lose sight of what is right, decent and uniquely good about America.

  Colin Powell

  Hurt, Moving, Sacrifice

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• I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.

  Ian Mcewan

  Men, Play, Watches

  "Ian McEwan: By the Book". The New York Times Interview, www.nytimes.com. December 6, 2012.

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• We don't want to hurt anybody, kill anybody, build any prisons, or build police. We want to make it unnecessary for people to steal - so they'll have access to medical care, health care, decent housing, all people, all over the world. As long as you don't share your resources, you are going to have trouble

  Jacque Fresco

  Hurt, Long, People

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• We tend to buy things - a lot of things - where we don't know exactly what will happen, but the outcome will be decent.

  Charlie Munger

  Outcomes, Happens, Knows

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• I just don't see anything available that gives any reasonable hope of delivering such a good year and I have no desire to grope around, hoping to 'get lucky' with other people's money. I am not attuned to this market environment, and I don't want to spoil a decent record by trying to play a game I don't understand just so I can go out a hero.

  Warren Buffett

  Hero, Years, Games

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• It is one of history's great ironies that capitalists built decent and humane societies on the basis of an amoral approach to the economics of pricing, whereas socialists built exploitative and inhumane societies on the basis of a morally inflamed approach to economics.

  Kevin D. Williamson

  Irony, Economics, Bases

  Kevin D Williamson (2010). “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism”, p.22, Regnery Publishing

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• Communism requires of its adherents that they arise early and participate in a strenuous round of calisthenics. To someone who wishes that cigarettes came already lit the thought of such exertion at an hour when decent people are just nodding off is thoroughly abhorrent.

  Fran Lebowitz

  People, Wish, Abhorrent

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.48, Vintage

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• I think it's doubly important, now that we see so many people failing. When the norm is an anti-hero, there's a serious loss when you cannot portray a decent person on screen without it becoming slightly sentimental or feeling like it's unrealistic.

  Brendan Gleeson

  Hero, Loss, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you're on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.

  O. Henry

  Home, Beer, Glasses

  O. Henry (2015). “O. Henry's stories: Short Stories and Classic Literature”, p.52, 谷月社

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• While you're trying to get ahead, remember to get aheart as well. When your only problem IS a nail, all you want is a decent hammer. There are only two ways to live your life: one is as though nothing is a miracle; the other is as though everything is a miracle.

  Albert Einstein

  Two, Miracle, Live Your Life

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• You've got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor.  Why should it?  The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than any one else in there being some decent government.  The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes been objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.  Aristocrats were always anarchists, as you can see from the barons' wars.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Country, War, Men

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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• I think it is easy for people to build up an image of what I'm about. I consider myself quite a nice chappy really. I'm decent to people, I stay in and listen to Radio 4.

  Jay Kay

  Nice, Thinking, People

  "Jay Kay: 'Getting an award on Top Gear is better than getting a Grammy'". Mirror.co.uk Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. January 27, 2012.

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• This medium that we're working in - film and television - for an audience, it's like you live through these characters because it's things you can't do in real life. Places you're not prepared to go in real life as a decent human being, anyway. Because if you're a conscientious person, so you live kind of vicariously through these people.

  Christian Cooke

  Real, Character, People

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• If you think reading a book is hard, you should try writing one. Because it's even harder. It's still not as hard as writing a game, though. If you discount the purely visual pop-up parts, a book is made almost entirely of words. As a novelist, you just need to think of a few decent strings of words and then fill the other 98% of the book with more or less random descriptions of things and exclamation points.

  Erik Wolpaw

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• An artist needs to become familiar with that which is most hidden from the self by the self. For this one thing which one fears to know is often the driving force in one's life. These recognitions seen in art are the difference between decent, extraordinary and great.

  Pat Steir

  Art, Differences, Self

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• Above all, ascribe no decent motives to the federal government. Always and everywhere, it is the enemy of truth.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Government, Enemy, Motive

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• The decent thing to do is to get rid of some of this money.

  James A. Michener

  Things To Do

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• In the sixties, during the Vietnam war, when anarchists and pacifists and socialists, Democrats and Republicans, decent-hearted Americans, all recoiled with horror at the bloodbath, we came together.

  Pete Seeger

  War, Together, Vietnam

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• I spent money on a decent bike, a bit of kit for paddle boarding and I like bird watching so I bought a decent pair of binoculars but as far as bottles of Cristal champagne and Gucci loafers? No, blingy and showy stuff isn't me.

  Bill Bailey

  Bird, Bottles, Stuff

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist. And there is no decent or charted way of making a living at it. It is something you are, and not something you do.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Way, Nihilist, Opposition

  Christopher Hitchens (2001). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• The adjective 'decent' and the noun 'government' have seldom come together in the human history!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Government, Together, Adjectives

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