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• You’re not the only one who’s loyal and decent, Ture. It’s why I won’t betray Darling. He wouldn’t betray me and I know it. When someone really loves you, they find a way to get to you, even in the darkest night, against all odds. Through the worst nightmares, they are there, holding your hand. They’re there to stand with you to the end. I don’t just believe that. I know it. - Zarya Starska

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Love You, Believe, Night

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• Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does.

  George Orwell

  Doe, World

  George Orwell (1998). “Two wasted years, 1943”, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd

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• Make sure you live,' she said. 'As decent as you can. I know you'll make mistakes, but sometimes you're meant to, okay?

  Markus Zusak

  Mistake, Sometimes, Said

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• You decent?” I pulled the towel up a little higher. “Yes, if my wrinkled toes don’t offend.” Marco’s swarthy head popped around the doorjamb. “Naw, they’re cute.

  Karen Chance

  Cute, Littles, Towels

  Karen Chance (2011). “Hunt the Moon: A Cassie Palmer Novel”, p.17, Penguin

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• To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Enemy, Meat, Pork

  Anthony Bourdain (2011). “Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw”, p.65, A&C Black

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• But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Men, Answers

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2018). “White Nights and Other Stories”, p.71, Youcanprint

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• She just got out of the hospital. Why don't you go gossip behind her back, like decent people?

  Rachel Vincent

  People, Gossip, Behinds

  Rachel Vincent (2012). “Before I Wake”, p.31, Harlequin

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• Are you decent?" a woman's voice called, pushing the door cautiously ajar. "Nay, but we're clothed," Cian purred.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Doors, Voice, Pushing

  Karen Marie Moning (2005). “Spell of the Highlander”, Random House LLC

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• It seemed to him that in Annawadi, fortunes derived not just from what people did, or how well they did it, but from the accidents and catastrophes they dodged. A decent life was the train that hadn’t hit you, the slumlord you hadn’t offended, the malaria you hadn’t caught.

  Katherine Boo

  People, Malaria, Fortune

  Katherine Boo (2012). “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum”, p.13, Portobello Books

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• Just because someone's pretty, doesn't mean she's decent.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mean

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.138, Penguin

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• It was a silver cow. But when I say 'cow', don't go running away with the idea of some decent, self-respecting cudster such as you may observe loading grass into itself in the nearest meadow. This was a sinister, leering, Underworld sort of animal, the kind that would spit out of the side of its mouth for twopence.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Running, Animal, Self

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• Sparta must be regarded as the first völkisch state. The exposure of the sick, weak, deformed children, in short, their destruction, was more decent and in truth a thousand times more human than the wretched insanity of our day which preserves the most pathological subject.

  Adolf Hitler

  Children, Sick, Insanity

  "Hitler's Secret Book". Grove Press softcover book, 1961.

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• Is it not enough that we cannot make one another happy, must we also rob one another of the pleasures that any heart may permit itself now and then? And name me a person who in a bad mood will be decent enough to hide it, to bear it alone, without destroying the joy around him. Is it not rather an inner dissatisfaction with our own unworthiness, a dislike of ourselves that is always associated with envy aggravated by foolish conceit? We see people happy and not made happy by us, and that is unbearable.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Heart, Names, People

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• I got to give mom credit for how she handled it.She didn't try to pry and get all the details. All she said was that I should try to do "the right thing" because it's our choices that make us who we are. I figure that's pretty decent advice. But I'm still not 100% sure what I'm going to do tomorrow.

  Jeff Kinney

  Mom, Giving, Advice

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• Dwarves are not heroes, but a calculating folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad lots; some are not but are decent enough people like Thorin and Company, if you don't expect too much.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Hero, Dwarves, Ideas

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.114, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I do not need the written code of a spiritual belief to act like a decent human being.

  Jim Butcher

  Spiritual, Needs, Belief

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.213, Penguin

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• Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Girl, Men, Beats

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “This Side of Paradise”, p.142, Xist Publishing

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• You weren't a decent man and you didn't do your best. We none of us were and none of us did.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Decent Man

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• While the parts change, the whole always remains the same. For every thief who departs this world, a new one is born. And every decent person who passes away is replaced by a new one. In this way not only does nothing remain the same but also nothing ever really changes.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Passing Away, Thieves, Doe

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• He thought of men like Hitler, Stalin, and Napoleon. All it took was a lot of seemingly decent people to put the wrong person in power and then fall under their spell.

  Hugh Howey

  Fall, Men, People

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• It’s not going to be easy to proceed. There are going to be barriers, difficulties, hardships, failures - it’s inevitable. But unless the spirit of the last year, here and elsewhere in the country and around the globe, unless that continues to grow and becomes a major force in the social and political world, the chances for a decent future are not very high.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Political, Hardship

  "Occupy". Book by Noam Chomsky, www.tomdispatch.com. 2012.

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• Skewer is just too vague. I think if you say, ’Stand back or I’ll stab him in the stomach,’ then I have an idea about how serious you are. After all, Leif’s stomach is his favorite body part so that’s a decent threat.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Thinking, Ideas, Body

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• Any decent person who knows what warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart.

  Orson Scott Card

  Heart, Battle, Warfare

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.184, Macmillan

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• I'm more than ever of the opinion that a decent human existence is possible today only on the fringes of society, where one then runs the risk of starving or being stoned to death. In these circumstances, a sense of humor is a great help.

  Hannah Arendt

  Running, Risk, Today

  Hannah Arendt (2000). “The Portable Hannah Arendt”, Penguin Group USA

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• the Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it.

  Dan Savage

  Reading, Persons

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