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To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time. -- Evita Peron
I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried. -- Douglas Hyde
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully. -- Thomas Carlyle
For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage. -- James Fallows
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My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly. -- Carlos Santana
I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten. -- Anita Roddick
I love this planet... I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world. -- Ted Turner
I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being. -- Michael Tippett
For people who have done comedy after a certain point in time, I think there's a base level of, 'O.K., I think I'm decently funny.' But unless you just have some massive ego, I really think you're still fighting against that. -- Will Ferrell
I love playing serious! That's a relief for me. It means something. It sounds dead corny and cheesy, but on a day-to-day basis, you can't just let loose and cry. So as an actress playing those gritty roles, I can play it quite decently. -- Lauren Socha
My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn't big anything better than the golden rule. It's in every major religion in one language or another. -- Art Linkletter
Sports formed me. I was always decently skilled but lacked size, so I had to resort to using my skill versus my power. I strategically play golf because that's all I can do. It's the same on the basketball court. I try to get open and shoot it. Or I use the open space on the soccer field. -- Zach Johnson
I said to myself, 'I want to die decently'. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did. -- Paulo Coelho
You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Morality measured in centimeters: all mothers believe that only their daughters dance decently. -- Jose Bergamin
If men live decently it is because discipline saves their very lives for them. -- Sophocles
I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried -- Douglas Hyde
It is no use to preach to [children] if you do not act decently yourself. -- Theodore Roosevelt
If you reach for the stars, you just might land on a decently sized hill. -- Stuart Hill
You have to be kind to people. Treat them decently. There's no excuse for not. -- Ben Affleck
The average income in France is $1,000 a month, and you can't live decently on that. -- Jean-Luc Godard
The objective is to win: fairly, squarely, decently, win by the rules, but still win. -- Vince Lombardi
You can't criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently. -- Angela Davis
Why doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present? -- D. H. Lawrence
No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing. -- E. B. White
You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead. -- Kurt Vonnegut
I maintain, against the enemies of the stage, that patterns of piety, decently represented, may second the precepts. -- John Dryden
Under the whole "personal is political" motto of feminism, I feel that personal kindness, treating people decently, is political-is punk. -- Beth Ditto
We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language. -- George Bernard Shaw
Few people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails. -- Bill Mollison
Satanic Verses is a despicable book that could not have been written by a person who wished to behave decently and responsibly. -- Orson Scott Card
The true criminal must be defined as a man who commits a crime though he is as decently fed and clothed as others. -- Yoshida Kenko
I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Eat where the people eat, not the hotels and touristy restaurants. If a local teacher makes $50 a month and they're living decently, see what they do. -- Rita Gelman
Courage becomes a worthwhile and meaningful virtue when it is regarded not so much as a willingness to die manfully but as a determination to live decently. -- Thomas S. Monson
The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her. -- George Bernard Shaw
I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently. -- Mary Doria Russell
If a child shows himself incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind. -- Don Marquis
Language has multiple uses, and is embedded in different forms of life. It is not necessary to have this grand concept of "humanity" in order to behave decently. -- Talal Asad
I am just going. Have me decently buried; and do not let my body be put into the Vault in less than three days after I am dead.... Tis well. -- George Washington
You live your life and it ends quite quickly and all you can do with it is pass it on decently to someone else. Whether directly or indirectly, behave decently to other people. -- Danny Boyle
To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, canâ??t sit still, move, or even go decently insane. -- Charles Bukowski
Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it. -- W. Somerset Maugham
I hate amateurs. I hate unprofessional people. There are enough people who can do jobs decently that there's no reason that people who cannot do them decently [should] pretend to be great at it. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Philosophy is fundamentally about how you come to terms with living your life and trying to do it in a wise manner, and, for me, that means decently and compassionately and courageously and so forth. -- Cornel West
I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses and made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently . . . This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten. -- Anita Roddick

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