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• Our task is not to make societies safe for globalization, but to make the global system safe for decent societies.

  John J. Sweeney

  Tasks, Safe, Environment

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• Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man? ... Does man have any responsibility for the preservation of a decent balance in nature, for the preservation of rare species, or even for the indefinite continuance of his race?

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Responsibility, Men, Race

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• Marrying the first person who offers you a decent position in society. Love can wait.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Waiting, Firsts

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• Thinking that being a good, decent, respectable person will mean that others will see you as weak, vulnerable, and easy to manipulate.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Mean, Thinking

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• Is it not the glory of the people of America, that whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of former times and other nations, they have not suffered a blind veneration for antiquity, for custom, or for names, to overrule the suggestions of their own good sense, the knowledge of their own situation, and the lessons of their own experience? To this manly spirit, posterity will be indebted for the possession, and the world for the example of the numerous innovations displayed on the American theatre, in favor of private rights and public happiness.

  James Madison

  Rights, Names, America

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.57, Rowman & Littlefield

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• It won't be long before we'll be writing together again. I just hope they have a decent piano up there.

  Frederic Loewe

  Music, Writing, Together Again

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• I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I wasn't sure was going to be interesting to other people. But I guess it was...I've never had any discipline whatsoever. I just wait on a song like I was waiting for lightning to strike. And eventually-usually sometime around 3 in the morning-I'll have a good idea. By the time the sun comes up, hopefully, I'll have a decent song.

  John Prine

  Song, Morning, Real

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• Writin songs is like a mystery. The most difficult thing to do is have a good idea. If you have a decent idea, the songs are the easy part. Actually having something to say is the hard part. If you get an idea for a song, then it pulls you along. There are just some ideas that you get that are really hard to edit out; it's hard to stop thinking about some bad ideas. So you just finish it and you end up putting it on a record.

  Lyle Lovett

  Song, Thinking, Ideas

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• People are always asking me what my lyrics mean. Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. F**k them, darling. I say what any decent poet would say if you dared ask him to analyze his work: If you see it, dear, then it's there. ... I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics. ... I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.

  Freddie Mercury

  Song, Writing, Mean

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• As individuals, as families, as neighbors, as members of one community, people of all races and political views are usually decent, kind, compassionate. But in large corporations or governments, when great power accumulates in their hands, some become monsters even with good intentions.

  Dean Koontz

  Gratitude, Race, Government

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel”, p.87, Bantam

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• The English masses are lovable: they are kind, decent, tolerant, practical and not stupid. The tragedy is that they are too many of them, and that they are aimless, having outgrown the servile functions for which they were encouraged to multiply. One day these huge crowds will have to seize power because there will be nothing else for them to do, and yet they neither demand power nor are ready to make use of it; they will learn only to be bored in a new way.

  Cyril Connolly

  Stupid, Power, Bored

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• I would sooner be robbed by a fan than a company. The fan may be broke and have but one choice. There is no excuse for the way the "songwriter" is robbed by everyone from the record company to the broadcaster, by the pure bottom line, greed. If it continues, sadly, in time, the music will suffer. It takes many many years to learn how to write a song properly. Songwriters will be forced to hit the road in order to make a decent living and, in my opinion, these two careers are related but not compatible.

  Mickey Newbury

  Song, Writing, Order

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• It's great if you're funny or if you can dance, but if you are kind and decent, it comes out your pores.

  Yvette Nicole Brown

  Kind, Ifs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.

  Dan Castellaneta

  Funny, Dark, People

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

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• I'm going to insist on making sure that we've got decent funding, that we've got enough teachers, that we've got computers in the classroom, but unless you turn off the television set and get over a certain anti-intellectualism that I think pervades some low-income communities, our children are not going to achieve.

  Barack Obama

  Teacher, Children, Thinking

  "Meet The Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. July 25, 2004.

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• I'd been trying for a while to get parts that weren't just the English bad guy, so it was quite refreshing to be playing someone who was a compassionate, decent guy.

  Sean Bean

  Guy, Trying, Playing Someone

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• For every sleazeball in the business there are plenty of decent and wonderful people.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  People, Wonderful, Plenty

  Kathie Lee Gifford, Jim Jerome (1993). “I Can't Believe I Said That!: An Autobiography”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country... By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Mean, Labor Day

  Franklin Roosevelt's Statement on the National Industrial Recovery Act, June 16, 1933.

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• As long as I can sing halfway decent, I'd rather sing than act. There's nothing like being in good voice, feeling good, having good numbers to do and having a fine orchestra.

  Howard Keel

  Voice, Numbers, Long

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• I'm very proud that the first bill I had the opportunity to sign into law as President was the Family and Medical Leave Act No parent should ever have to choose between work and family; between earning a decent wage and caring for a child.

  William J. Clinton

  Children, Caring, Opportunity

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• If a guy as good and decent with as much grace as Chuck Heston can stand up for an issue that I think is very important ... then I certainly could stand up and I plan on remaining a life member for life.

  Tom Selleck

  Thinking, Issues, Guy

  Biography/Personal, www.imdb.com.

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• This is a spiritual war. And the Father of Lies has his sights on what you would think the Father of Lies would have his sights on: a good, decent, powerful, influential country - the United States of America. If you were Satan, who would you attack in this day and age?

  Rick Santorum

  Spiritual, Country, Powerful

  "Does Santorum Believe Obama Is Part of a Satanic Plot?" by David Corn, www.motherjones.com. February 22, 2012.

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• If theres something decent going in television, the mediums now are kind of equal. Television has become much higher quality.

  Penelope Ann Miller

  Quality, Television, Kind

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• I'm disappointed, depressed, and demoralized. [...] It is very hard to avoid the conclusion that President Bush flinched from a fight on constitutional philosophy. Miers is undoubtedly a decent and competent person. But her selection will unavoidably be judged as reflecting a combination of cronyism and capitulation on the part of the president.

  William Kristol

  Philosophy, Fighting, President

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• You'd have to think that you're at least decent, or you couldn't get up every morning and do it. I think if I live long enough, I might be pretty good

  Martin Mull

  Morning, Thinking, Long

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