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«On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.»
«It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.»
Author: Agnes Repplier
(Essayist, Writer)
| Keywords:
decencies, luxuries, suggestive, suggestive of
«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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Ignorance
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agnostic, agnostics, burned, burned at the stake, burning at the stake, decencies, decency, explorer, explorers, fanatics, menace, menaced, menaces, menacing, observed, pretensions, skeptics, stake, staked, suffered, The Menace, The Skeptic
«If you must commit suicide... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.»
«I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.»
«Do not overestimate the decency of the human race»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
decencies, decency, human race, overestimate, overestimated, overestimates
«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
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
common sense, decencies, decency, favor, honesty, inaccurate, ineligible, office, public office, strongly
«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
«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
(Writer)
| Keywords:
decencies, decency, hospitality, luncheon, luncheons, potato, potato salad, pretending, run out, salad, throwing
«Politics are not my concern . . . They impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies.»
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