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Letter "D" » decency
«On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.»
«I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortur»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
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About:
Ignorance
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decencies,
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pretensions,
skeptics,
stake,
staked,
suffered,
The Menace,
The Skeptic
«Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?»
«Men are disgusting and, left to their own devices, they will affront the central tenets of human decency - and laugh uproariously at it»
Author: Jonah Goldberg
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About:
Men
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Keywords:
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decency,
devices,
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tenet,
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The central,
uproariously
«I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.»
«Morals are private. Decency is public.»
«No matter how noble the objective of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion - it is an evil government»
Author: Eric Hoffer
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Writer)
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Keywords:
blur,
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breeds,
cheapen,
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decency,
ill will,
objective,
suspicion
«It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
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Critic,
Journalist)
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Keywords:
common sense,
decencies,
decency,
favor,
honesty,
inaccurate,
ineligible,
office,
public office,
strongly
«I think someone should have had the decency to tell me the luncheon was free. To make someone run out with potato salad in his hand, pretending he's throwing up, is not what I call hospitality.»
Author: Jack Handy
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Writer)
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Keywords:
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hospitality,
luncheon,
luncheons,
potato,
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pretending,
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salad,
throwing
«Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.»