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• The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of good sense and of the good medium was certainly that people ought not to burn too large a number of heretics; extreme and unreasonable opinion obviously demanded that they should burn none at all.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Numbers, People, Progress

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• My seminar is for highschool students, decent undergraduates, bright graduates, and outstanding professors.

  Israel Gelfand

  Students, Graduates, Outstanding

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• Just because you are an architect and make decent buildings does not mean that you can suddenly become a set designer for one of the best avant-garde dancers in the world.

  Frank Gehry

  Mean, Dancer, Doe

  "'Available Light' Interviews: Frank Gehry, Lucinda Childs, and John Adams". Interview with Julie Lazar, www.kcet.org.

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• If a guy is a good athlete, he'll end up being a pretty decent golfer if he just takes it up. But you never master it; even the best players in the world never master the game.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Athlete, Player, Games

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

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• Honestly I prefer dressing for comfort rather than style, so whatever is comfortable and looks decent, that'll do.

  Elizabeth Tan

  Style, Comfort, Looks

  Source: sea.askmen.com

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• It is hard to tell if capital punishment has such an effect. And even if, in some contexts it has (such as in the American South with a very high incidence of murder), this effect may very well go away if a decent welfare state was replaced for the existing social order.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Order, Punishment, Going Away

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I wish we could be decent to each other.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Wish

  Interview with Benedict Cumberbatch, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2016.

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• When I was secretary of state, I went around the world advocating for America, but also advocating for women's rights, to make sure that women had a decent chance to have a better life and negotiated a treaty with Russia to lower nuclear weapons. Four hundred pieces of legislation have my name on it as a sponsor or cosponsor when I was a senator for eight years.

  Hillary Clinton

  America, Russia, Eight

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• There is no way they should walk out of that place [Wells Fargo] with millions, tens of millions, tens and tens of millions of dollars, when innocent people who actually flagged this culture of conceit and culture of rip off should've been fired while the people who were doing it somehow are able to just resign and reap the big reward. It's just an outrage. It's people who have forgotten decent values towards other people.

  John Kasich

  Rip, People, Dollars

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• Honestly, I just try to drink lots of water and get a decent amount of sleep!

  Ashley Greene

  Sleep, Water, Trying

  Source: www.elle.com

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• If you're talking about crowd enthusiasm, it varies. I have a decent following in Australia so I like there. I'm interested in playing everywhere.

  Dylan Moran

  Australia, Talking, Crowds

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Every decent man had to be against fascism, period.

  Amos Oz

  Men, Periods, Fascism

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• I don't think a decent person has to choose between being pro-Israel and pro-Palestine. I think you have to be pro-Peace.

  Amos Oz

  Thinking, Israel, Palestine

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• If you look at my résumé, I've more often than not played a very solid, decent human being.

  Jeffrey Dean Morgan

  Looks, Humans, Ifs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A discourse for broad-based political change is crucial for developing a politics that speaks to a future that can provide sustainable jobs, decent health care, quality education and communities of solidarity and support for young people.

  Henry Giroux

  Jobs, People, Political

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We worked all the time, just worked and then we would be hungry and my mother was clearing up a new ground trying to help feed us for $1.25 a day. She was using an axe, just like a man, and something flew up and hit her in her eye. It eventually caused her to lose both of her eyes and I began to get sicker and sicker of the system there. I used to see my mother wear clothes that would have so many patches on them, they had been done over and over and over again. She would do that but she would try to keep us decent.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Mother, Eye, Men

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• I went almost naked to see that my mother was kept decent and treated as a human being for the first time in all of her life.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Mother, Firsts, Naked

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• My mother was a great woman. To look at her from the suffering she had gone through to bring us up - 20 children: 6 girls and 14 boys, but still she taught us to be decent and to respect ourselves, and that is one of the things that has kept me going, even after she passed.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Girl, Mother, Children

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• You can tell this by the program the federal government had to train 2,400 tractor drivers. They would have trained Negro and white together, but this man, Congressman Jamie Whitten, voted against it and everything that was decent. So, we've got to have somebody in Washington who is concerned about the people of Mississippi.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Men, White, People

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• That was an extremely unhelpful thing for Bill Shorten to say because those of us - and as the Attorney-General I've been closely involved in this along with my colleague Nigel Scullion, the Minister for Indigenous Affairs - what we have been trying to do for some years now, throughout the life of the Coalition Government in fact, is to bring the Australian people on a journey with us - conservative Australians as well as more progressive Australians, to persuade them that it is a seemly and fitting and decent and appropriate thing to recognise the first Australians in the Constitution.

  George Brandis

  Journey, Years, Government

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• People always say, "Can writing be taught?" I always think, I can teach you how to write a better sentence, how to do dialogue, how to do character, but I can't teach you how to be a decent person, and I can't teach you how to have something to say.

  Ann Patchett

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• For the most part, cops are decent and honorable, but that's how I know that there are bad cops, cops that you think you know so well.

  Nancy Grace

  Thinking, Cop, Honorable

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• We may be smaller, we may be small in number, we may have a lot less money, but there are a growing number of people who are sick and tired of the campaigns to destroy decent people, such as George Bush, Sarah Palin, Clarence Thomas, Paula Jones, Linda Tripp, Matt Drudge, Rush Limbaugh.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Tired, Numbers, People

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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• I read Nicholas Kristof columns. I think it was in September [2016] had he this piece look who is endorsing [Donald] Trump, who is behind him. It was the North Korean government, it was Islamic terrorists. It's the Klan. It's the American Nazi party. It seems very uncharitable to me. There was no room for people who are decent but economically beleaguered to maybe want to support him.

  Tucker Carlson

  Party, Islamic, Thinking

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• It is a dictatorship. They did have a good health - do have a decent health care system and a decent educational system. A lot of people have left Cuba for better dreams, to fulfill their aspirations.

  Bernie Sanders

  Dream, Educational, People

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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