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• The real heretic is not the atheist or agnostic (who are often decent people) but those who murmur "it doesn't matter what you believe, as long as it makes you feel good." This turns religion into a subjective matter, like taste in furnishings, and robs theology of its claim to ultimate truth.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Atheist, Real, Believe

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• There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Race, Two

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• That Plato's Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary snobbery in all history.

  Bertrand Russell

  Plato, Should Have, People

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.436, Routledge

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• ...As every one of us knows, there are some festivals and games in which everything goes right, and every element lifts up, animates, and exalts every other, just as there are theatrical and musical performances which without any clearly discernible cause seem to ascend miraculously to glorious climaxes and intensely felt experiences, whereas others, just as well prepared, remain no more than decent tries.

  Hermann Hesse

  Games, Musical, Trying

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• This is a decent and honorable country - and resilient, too. We've been through a lot together. We've met challenges and faced dangers, and we know that more lie ahead. Yet we can go forward with confidence - because the State of our Union is strong, our cause in the world is right, and tonight that cause goes on. God bless.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Strong, Lying

  Sixth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 23 January 2007

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• Why waste your life working for a few shillings a week in a scullery, eighteen hours a day, when a woman could earn a decent wage by selling her body instead?

  Emma Goldman

  Body, Waste, Week

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• I wanted to say to Elvis Presley and the country that this is a real decent, fine boy, and wherever you go, Elvis, we want to say we've never had a pleasanter experience on our show with a big name than we've had with you.

  Ed Sullivan

  Country, Real, Boys

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• I think as long as the standard of quality, the story-telling, film-making, acting etc. etc. remains consistent, then you've got a good change of making a decent anthology.

  Neil Marshall

  Thinking, Long, Quality

  "Neil Marshall And Axelle Carolyn: The First Couple Of Horror". Interview with Chris Hewitt, www.empireonline.com. October 30, 2015.

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• There ain't no way I'm going to be droppin' nothing. If I was in my twenties, maybe. But now I try to keep it looking decent. I don't want to expose too much of my bare ass.

  Sharon Jones

  Trying, Twenties, Want

  "Dap Queen Sharon Jones". Interview with Titania Kumeh, www.motherjones.com. April 18, 2011.

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• We've got blue light, we've got all this light flooding our bedrooms and things blinking, and you can't get a decent night's sleep.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Sleep, Night, Light

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I decided that I was ready to assume this position when I discovered that the chance to save the country was very meager. I was prepared to sacrifice myself for this country and its 90 million people. They want food, fuel and electricity and yearn for a decent life. Any president who does not pay attention to such details or is unable to provide the minimum level of stability should leave office.

  Abdel Fattah el-Sisi

  Country, Sacrifice, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Personally, I like to hang out in the kitchen. That's my safe space in a party environment. I feel like it's a little quieter so you can actually have conversations with people, and anybody else who's also in the kitchen is probably someone I can have a decent conversation with.

  Hannah Hart

  Party, Space, People

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and ferocious pirates... Such, however, is the illusion of antiquity and wealth, that decent and dignified men now existing, boast their descent from these filthy thieves, who showed a far juster conviction of their own merits, by assuming for their types the swine, goat, jackal, leopard, wolf, and snake, which they severally resembled.

  Lewis Carroll

  Son, Men, Snakes

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• Returnless risk is not how you prepare for a decent retirement.

  Barry Ritholtz

  Retirement, Risk

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• When we give help to the poor, we are not doing the work of aid agencies 'in a Christian way'. Those are good, it is a decent thing to do - aid work is good and quite human - but it is not Christian poverty, which St. Paul desires of us and preaches to us. Christian poverty is that I give of my own, and not of that which is left over - I give even that, which I need for myself, to the poor person, because I know that he enriches me. Why does the poor person enrich me? Because Jesus Himself told us that He is in the poor person.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Jesus, Agency

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• Everyone working 40 hrs a week should have a shot at a decent life.

  Joe Biden

  Should Have, Week, Shots

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• No matter how flawed someone else may be, that doesn't give us the right to be less than we are, does it? We are decent people and we repay our debts.

  Jean Kwok

  People, Giving, Doe

  Jean Kwok (2010). “Girl in Translation”, p.94, Penguin UK

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• Any gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a decent person is no threat to anybody — except bad people.

  Charlton Heston

  Gun, Men, Hands

  "Meet the Press" Interview, May 18, 1997.

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• A decent person does not alienate children from a parent, no matter how angry they are at the parent for the divorce. It's unfair to the children, and it's unfair to the other human being

  Dennis Prager

  Children, Divorce, Parent

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• As long as you don't stop producing guns, you can't be a decent country!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Country, Gun, Long

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• The problem - at least in the United States - is not that people can't find jobs. The problem is that they're no longer finding jobs that provide them with dignity and decent social status.

  Kenneth Rogoff

  Jobs, People, United States

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I like making sure that I've got a decent haircut, my beard's a decent length. I trim it once a week and that's all I need to do. Also, shoes polished. Just put yourself together properly. It's about self-respect, but it's also about having a bit of respect for the people you're interacting with on a daily basis.

  Patrick Grant

  Shoes, Self, People

  "Recognize Craftsmanship". Interview with Daniel Barna, www.askmen.com.

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• I didn't look up and say, "Oh, man, if I learn how to play a guitar I could make not much money, but I'd make a decent living like Eric Clapton or somebody." There wasn't nothing like that out there.

  Buddy Guy

  Men, Play, Guitar

  "Blues guitarist Buddy Guy". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 7, 2012.

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• Any outfit that can't figure out clean toilets and decent theming on its own can't benefit from my advice.

  Cory Doctorow

  Advice, Benefits, Toilets

  Cory Doctorow (2015). “Makers”, p.345, Booklassic

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• And so evil flourishes and spreads because decent people don't want to make a fuss.

  Ken Bruen

  People, Evil, Want

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