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«Our task is not to make societies safe for globalization, but to make the global system safe for decent societies.»
«Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.»
Author: Mary Ellen Chase
| About:
Fathers,
Labor
| Keywords:
decent, manual, straightened, straightening, straightens, straighten out, straighten up
«My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
| Keywords:
decent, licentious, obscurities, obscurity, passages, text
«People in places many of us never heard of, whose names we can't pronounce or even spell, are speaking up for themselves. They speak in languages we once classified as ''exotic'' but whose mastery is now essential for our diplomats and businessmen. But what they say is very much the same the world over. They want a decent standard of living. They want human dignity and a voice in their own futures. They want their children to grow up strong and healthy and free.»
Author: Hubert H. Humphrey
(Vice President)
| Keywords:
businessmen, classified, classify, decent, Diplomats, exotic, futures, Human dignity, human voice, languages, mastery, pronounce, spell, standard, their own language, very much
«Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.»
Author: Lily Tomlin
(Actress, Comedian)
| About:
Adulthood,
Advertising,
Politicians,
Politics
| Keywords:
adults, Americans, but then, decent, eight, elected, electing, elects, hardworking, lousy, ninety, Ninety eight, percent, publicity
«One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.»
«Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.»
Author: Thomas Mann
(Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Respect
| Keywords:
decent, My Family, respectable
«The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.»
«Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all people are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all people and all countries - not until then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of humankind as civilized.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
decent, justification, maintenance, obligation, recognized, The Creation
«There's nothing like tobacco; it is the passion of all decent men-a man who lives without tobacco does not deserve to live.»
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