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«That food has always been, and will continue to be, the basis for one of our greater snobbism does not explain the fact that the attitude toward the food choice of others is becoming more and more heatedly exclusive until it may well turn into one of those forms of bigotry against which gallant little committees are constantly planning campaigns in the cause of justice and decency.»
Author: Cornelia Otis Skinner
| Keywords:
campaigns, decency, exclusive, gallant, heatedly, well-turned
«Until this moment, Senator, I think I had never gauged your cruelty or your recklessness. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?»
Author: Joseph N. Welch
| Keywords:
at long last, decency, gauge, gauged, gauging, long-lasting, recklessness, senator
«That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end»
«That laughter costs too much, which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency»
«The Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The Government may not, through the [Communications Decency Act], interrupt that conversation.»
Author: Stewart Dalzell
| About:
Internet
| Keywords:
communications, decency, fairly, interrupt, never-ending, regarded, worldwide
«People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.»
Author: Henrik Ibsen
| Keywords:
decency
«The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
| Keywords:
decencies, decency, Politics of, practical, practical politics, The Politics
«The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations And Religions; whom we shall welcome to a participation of all our rights and privileges, if by decency and proprie»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
bosom, decency, oppressed, opulent, participation, persecuted, privileges, respectable, Rights and privileges
«School days are the unhappiest in the whole span if human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, with brutal violations of common sense and common decency.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Common sense,
Day,
Schools
| Keywords:
brutal, common school, decency, human existence, ordinances, span, spanning, tasks, unhappiest, unintelligible, unpleasant, violations
«The fundamentalist mind, running in a single rut for fifty years, is now quite unable to comprehend dissent from its basic superstitions, or to grant any common honesty, or even any decency, to those who reject them»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Mind
| Keywords:
comprehend, decencies, decency, dissent, dissenting, dissents, fifty, fundamentalist, Fundamentalists, grant, honesty, reject, rut, ruts, rutting, superstitions, unable
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