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It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.
Author:
Khaleda Zia
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Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.
Author:
Tiger Woods
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I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.
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Victoria Woodhull
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I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.
Author:
Studs Terkel
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The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.
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John Stevens
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The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
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Theodore Roosevelt
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The Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2004 helps address the continuing degradation on the broadcast airwaves and helps send a clear message to the broadcast industry that Alabama families, like the rest of American families, have had enough.
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Mike Rogers
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.
Author:
Jeanette Rankin
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In addition to fines, violators of decency standards could be required to air public service announcements serving educational and informational needs of children.
Author:
Charles Pickering
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That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of history.
Author:
William Morton
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Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.
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H. Mencken
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As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate.
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John McCain
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The extent to which all people in our society are made to count, and believe that they count, is not just a measure of decency; it makes sound economic sense.
Author:
Mary McAleese
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That past is still within our living memory, a time when neighbour helped neighbour, sharing what little they had out of necessity, as well as decency.
Author:
Mary McAleese
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Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.
Author:
Thurgood Marshall
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If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.
Author:
Harold MacMillan
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I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we've confronted these things we've been able to talk them through, and I'm sure we will with this issue as well.
Author:
Michael King
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I respect anyone who has to fight and howl for his decency.
Author:
Deborah Kerr
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As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.
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Caroline Kennedy
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Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.
Author:
Meir Kahane
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With a foreign policy appropriately rooted in some sense of humanitarian decency, the Central African crisis will not be easily ignored by American policymakers. It screams for remedy.
Author:
Michael Johns
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HUD's mission is to provide decency and sanitary housing for low and moderate income people in this country.
Author:
Alphonso Jackson
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People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
Author:
Henrik Ibsen
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
Author:
Dag Hammarskjold
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
Author:
A. Giamatti
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A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.
Author:
W. Fields
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Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written.
Author:
William Faulkner
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Is there decency left in American politics?
Author:
Byron Dorgan
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Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.
Author:
Quentin Crisp
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Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
Author:
Marcus Cicero
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As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.
Author:
Margaret Cavendish
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Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.
Author:
Pablo Casals
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Morals are private. Decency is public.
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Rita Brown
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I say we have not even had the decency to maintain the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us - our roads, our bridges, our wastewater systems, our sewer systems; by the way, those weren't Bolsheviks, those weren't socialists that built those things for us - much less build the infrastructure we need for the 21st century.
Author:
Michael Bennett
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God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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Aeschylus
