Angela Davis
Political Activist, Scholar
"You can't criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently."
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Decent
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Gaylord Nelson
Politician
"Every person has the inalienable right to a decent environment."
Ernest Hemingway
Novelist
"The only decent bone in her body was mine."
Charlie Munger
Investor, Businessman
"We tend to buy things - a lot of things - where we don't know exactly what will happen, but the outcome will be decent."
James Joyce
Novelist, Poet
"You get a decent do at the Brazen Head"
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"There are only two races, the decent and the indecent."
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"Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does."
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"As long as I'm learning something, I figure I'm OK - it's a decent day."
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"When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once."
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"She just got out of the hospital. Why don't you go gossip behind her back, like decent people?"
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"Decent people shouldn't live here. They'd be happier some place else."
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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."
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"Truly decent, innocent people can be taxing to be around."
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"If there is a God, you owe him far more than a morally decent life."
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"Decency, not to dare to do that in public which it is decent enough to do in private."
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"I'm the star of the show. I should have a decent haircut."
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"To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist. And there is no decent or charted way of making a living at it. It is something you are, and not something you do."
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"I have solid decent people around me, and I believe that is all it is, because you will get destroyed if you have people bringing you down."
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"Any decent writer writes because there's some deep internal need to keep learning."
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"No decent career was ever founded on a public."
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"I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What's life without a sense of humor?"
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"The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong."
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