Decent Quotes
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Although it is true that only about 20 percent of American workers are in unions, that 20 percent sets the standards across the board in salaries, benefits and working conditions. If you are making a decent salary in a non-union company, you owe that to the unions. One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts.
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Much of the blame for the situation lies with the states themselves. They haven't been able to pass decent laws. For decades, tax authorities have been taking aim at the phenomenon of tax havens, and the most aggravating thing is that they aren't just in Bermuda or on the Cayman Islands, but right outside our front door.
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The only decent bone in her body was mine.
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I came back to You because I could not find the kind and decent things I found in You anywhere else.
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Instead of being lionized and admired for her genius, instead of being able to earn a decent living as a writer, Andrea Dworkin was misrepresented and demonized.
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Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them
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You gotta understand also that teenage kids just don't have the experience and the studio technique. I mean, in those days it wasn't electronic like it is today, where you can hit a drum and, you know, the engineer does it all. In those days, everything was live and you had to have decent sounds, and through the years you get to weed out what's bad and what's good.
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I think if you're a liberal, you believe that we all are, at least to some extent, our brothers' keepers, you really believe that we have a sumptuary responsibility to make sure that life is decent for everybody in America, that you believe that society out to be broadly shared, and you believe that you can't have a real democracy unless you have a little bit, at least, of economic democracy.
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Clearly our first task is to use the material wealth of space to solve the urgent problems we now face on Earth: to bring the poverty-stricken segments of the world up to a decent living standard, without recourse to war or punitive action against those already in material comfort; to provide for a maturing civilization the basic energy vital to its survival.
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I was surprised by how much I like being a father; surprised at what a decent father I am, because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to dump my selfishness.
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When you behave well towards somebody regardless of what you're receiving, you feel better about yourself. So be decent to people.
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The criminal law is no use to decent people.
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Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.
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I grew up, as reported, in a large family of Catholics without even a decent ration of tentativeness among the lot of us about our religious faith.
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“Though sometimes it seems to mention a man who simply acts like a decent human being gets undue praise”
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We can't have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
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I like good food and decent wine as much as Roy Jenkins does, but I keep quiet about it.
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I am not a hero. I just did what any decent person would have done.
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And so evil flourishes and spreads because decent people don't want to make a fuss.
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I have been here 15 years and we have never had a decent run in this competition
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It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible.
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Most of my heroes are just decent people. Decency is rare and underrated.
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There are people who don't understand some of the core aspects of being a decent human being.
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All the way through, we have been willing to take risks, provided at the end of it we can get a decent lasting settlement in Northern Ireland
