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• If nothing else, I'm a decent quote.

  Andy Roddick

  Ifs

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• I think Ron Paul's views are totally outside the mainstream of virtually every decent American.

  Newt Gingrich

  Thinking, Views, Mainstream

  "Surging in Iowa, Ron Paul Takes His Turn as Rivals' Punching Bag", www.foxnews.com. December 28, 2011.

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• There is not way that you can have a decent life as a man if you aren't awake and aware every moment. Show up for your own life. Don't pass your days in a stupor, content to swallow whatever watery ideas modern society may bottle feed you through the media, satisfied to slumber through life in an instant gratification sugar coma. The most extraordinary gift you've been given is your own humanity, which is about consciousness. So honor that consciousness.

  Eustace Conway

  Men, Media, Ideas

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• I'm the star of the show. I should have a decent haircut.

  David James

  Stars, Should Have, Hairstyles

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

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• The administration Ill bring is a group of men and women who are focused on whats best for America, honest men and women, decent men and women, women who will see service to our country as a great privilege and who will not stain the house.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Humor, Men

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• There is only one force of history that can break the reign of hatred and resentment and expose the pretensions of tyrants and reward the hopes of the decent and tolerant. And that is the force of human freedom.

  George W. Bush

  Tyrants, Hatred, Reign

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 2005

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• I don't care what anyone says. You have to wake up and say to yourself, 'I accept that I have diabetes, and I'm not going to let it run my entire life.' It's a fine line, a Catch-22, a balancing act. I work to enjoy my life like a regular human being and at the same time keep my blood sugar levels as decent as possible.

  Bret Michaels

  Running, Blood, Wake Up

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• Leaving traces of ourselves, as in creative productivity, could then be seen as part of the definition of consciousness for us as well. We know that in order to progress we must stretch for something just out of reach--if only for a life that will be more compassionate and decent than the cruelty, paranoia, greed, narrow corporatism, or narcissism we mostly indulge in and find such ample justification for. And so we dream.

  Breyten Breytenbach

  Dream, Order, Indulge In

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• All you decent, well-meaning gentlemen, let me ask you, have you any idea what sort of place the world is becoming all around you? The days when you could act out of your noble instincts are over. Except of course, you here in Europe don't yet seem to know it.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Europe, Ideas, Gentleman

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2010). “The Remains of the Day”, p.102, Vintage

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• Here were decent godless people;
  Their only monument the asphalt road
  And a thousand lost golf balls.

  T. S. Eliot

  Golf, People, Balls

  "Choruses from the Rock" pt. 3 (1934)

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• I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education.

  Angela Merkel

  Sorry, Athlete, Effort

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.

  Abraham Maslow

  Pain, Self Esteem, Stress

  Abraham Harold Maslow (1999). “Toward a psychology of being”, Wiley

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• As in everything else, I must start with myself. That is: in all circumstances try to be decent, just, tolerant, and understanding, and at the same time try to resist corruption and deception. In other words, I must do my utmost to act in harmony with my conscience and my better self.

  Vaclav Havel

  Self, Understanding, Deception

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• My husband will never chase another woman. He's too fine, too decent, too old.

  Gracie Allen

  Life, Husband, Women

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

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• The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.

  Barbara Cartland

  England And America, People, Majority

  Interview in Wendy Leigh's Speaking Frankly, 1978.

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• I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war, by every decent method which wisdom could invent. Neither have I so much of the infidel in me, as to suppose that He has relinquished the government of the world, and given us up to the care of devils.

  Thomas Paine

  Giving Up, Military, War

  Thomas Paine (2008). “The American Crisis”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If a young fella has an option of having a decent career or joining the army to fight in Iraq, you can bet your life that he would not be in Iraq.

  Charles Rangel

  Stupid, Army, Fighting

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• On the Vietnam War: I've lived under situations where every decent man declared war first and I've lived under situations where you don't declare war. We've been flexible enough to kill people without declaring war.

  Lewis Blaine Hershey

  War, Men, People

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• Decent people shouldn't live here. They'd be happier some place else.

  Jack Nicholson

  People, Batman Movie

  "The emperor, the tyrant and the Joker" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. July 25, 2008.

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• President Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He helped heal our nation during a time of crisis, provided steady leadership and restored people's faith in the presidency and in government.

  Mark Udall

  Leadership, Country, Integrity

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• Americans of good-will, the nice decent church people, the well-meaning liberals, the good hearted souls who themselves wouldn't lynch anyone, must begin to realize that they have to be more than passively good-hearted, more than church goingly Christian, and much more than word-of-mouth in the liberalism.

  Langston Hughes

  Christian, Nice, People

  Langston Hughes (1995). “Langston Hughes and the Chicago Defender: Essays on Race, Politics, and Culture, 1942-62”, p.104, University of Illinois Press

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• Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Country, Years, Two

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• One may have a right to be unconventional and even eccentric, so long as one is fully competent and a decent person; but one's ideal as a professor should be to conduct oneself as an admirable human being: just, kind, tolerant, competent, committed, and good-humored.

  Robert Audi

  Teaching, Long, Unconventional

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• Our old pilgrims believed stories in which the West was a promise, a place where decent people could escape the wreckage of failed lives and start over. Come along, the dream whispers, and you can have another chance. We still listen to promises in the wind. This time, we think, we’ll get it right.

  William Kittredge

  Dream, Thinking, Wind

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• I wonder what my father saw in his most secret sight of the right life. It's my guess he wanted to live out his life surrounded by friends and children and fertile fields of his own designing. I tihnk he wanted to die believing he had been in one the creation of a good sweet place. Those old pilgrims believed stories in which the West was a promise, a far away place where decent people could escape the wreckage of the old world and start over. Come to me, the dream whispers, and you can have one more chance.

  William Kittredge

  Dream, Sweet, Children

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