#decency

I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency. ↗

— Ted Nugent

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We learned about dignity and decency - that how hard you work matters more than how much you make... that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself. ↗

— Michelle Obama

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The best place for discovering what a man is is the heart of the desert. Your plane has broken down, and you walk for hours, heading for the little fort at Nutchott. You wait for the mirages of thirst to gape before you. But you arrive and you find an old sergeant who has been isolated for months among the dunes, and he is so happy to be found that he weeps. And you weep, too. In the arching immensity of the night, each tells the story of his life, each offers the other the burden of memories in which the human bond is discovered. Here two men can meet, and they bestow gifts upon each other with the dignity of ambassadors. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Men corrupted religion; and a man's religious choice didn't matter in the least if it was his path to decency and remembering his fellow man. ↗

— Heather Graham

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The maid told him that a girl and a child had come looking for him, but since she didn't know them, she hadn't cared to ask them in, and had told them to go on to Mers. "Why didn't you let them in?" asked Germain angrily. "People must be very suspicious in this part of the world, if they won't open the front door to a neighbor." "Well, naturally!" replied the maid. "In a house as rich as this, you have to keep a close watch on things. While the master's away I'm responsible for everything, and I can't just open the door to anyone at all." "That's a mean way to live," said Germain; "I'd rather be poor than live in fear like that. Good-bye to you, miss, and good-bye to this horrible country of yours! ↗

— George Sand

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A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#politeness #fashion

I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency. ↗

— Victoria Woodhull

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Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter. ↗

— Tiger Woods

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Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it. ↗

— Pablo Casals

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There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense. ↗

— Jeanette Rankin

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