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Given appropriate social conditions, decent, ordinary people can be led to do extraordinarily cruel things.
Albert Bandura
People
Extraordinarily
Appropriate
Given
Cruel
Led
Conditions
Decent
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Social
Social Conditions
Things
Israel should aspire to be a decent country. That's good enough for me.
Amos Oz
Good
Me
Country
Enough
Israel
Decent
Should
Aspire
I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books.
Anthony Bourdain
Good
Me
Try
Books
Easy
Pretty
Write
Writer
Over
Like
Talk
Make
Decent
Them
Sentences
Agonize
A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.
Charles W. Pickering
Politics
Democracy
Healthy
Society
Honorable
Respectful
Generous
Decent
Requires
Tolerant
If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.
Harold MacMillan
God
Good
You
Better
Decency
Believe
Think
Enough
Indecent
Very
Than
Decent
In Plains, I saw Jimmy Carter as he really is - a nice, decent man... in terms of compassionate contribution to society, he certainly has proven to be our best past president.
Helen Thomas
Best
Man
Past
Nice
Society
President
Our
Saw
Jimmy
Jimmy Carter
Carter
He
Terms
Proven
Contribution
Decent
Decent Man
Plains
Really
Certainly
Compassionate
Meeting my wife Amanda was the best thing that could ever have happened to me. She wasn't going to let me screw around my life anymore, so I stopped drinking and started behaving like a decent human being.
Jason Bateman
Life
Best
Me
Human Being
Wife
My Life
Drinking
Meeting
Could
Like
She
Around
Amanda
Behaving
Going
Human
Decent
Stopped
Being
Anymore
Happened
Screw
Ever
Thing
Started
Ineos is a friendly organisation. Very few people leave. It's collegiate. There's not much politics, and we like decent people. We don't like arrogance or bullies.
Jim Ratcliffe
Politics
People
Arrogance
Few
Like
Leave
Bullies
Friendly
Very
Few People
Decent
Decent People
Much
Organisation
The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of living, will prove the finest bulwark against the intrusion of alien doctrines of government.
John L. Lewis
Life
Government
Alien
Will
Free
Living
Secure
Intrusion
Finest
Industrial
Doctrines
Partners
Prove
Bulwark
America
Decent
Decent Standard
Against
Workers
Production
Organized
Standard
Homes
Conscious
Enjoying
As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Meets
Once
Bad
Hat
Rarely
Absolute
Lifetime
Part
Fellow
Him
Always
Real
Authentic
Artist
Decent
Real Thing
Ordinary
Even
Villain
Thing
It's good to pay high taxes - you have free schools, free universities. It's a much more decent society than those where everybody pays their own way, and some people don't get anything.
Stellan Skarsgard
Good
You
People
Free
Some People
Own
Pay
Society
Everybody
Way
Those
High
Some
High Taxes
More
Schools
Than
Get
Decent
Where
Anything
Taxes
Much
Pays
Universities
Pennsylvania is home to some of the hardest-working, toughest, most decent people in America.
Bob Casey, Jr.
Home
People
Pennsylvania
Some
Toughest
Most
America
Decent
Decent People
I frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stand is consistent with decent principles, and no other standard is consistent with the will of God.
Alan Keyes
God
You
Abortion
Care
Will
Other
Consistent
Frankly
Take
Principles
Because
dont Care
Decent
Stand
Standard
Agree
The most important thing for me, when somebody asks me what I class as being a success, is being a decent human being.
Alesha Dixon
Success
Me
Class
Human Being
Somebody
Important
Most
Most Important Thing
Important Thing
Human
Decent
Being
The Most Important
Success Is
Ask
Thing
If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction.
Alex Chilton
Good
You
Song
Writing
Conviction
Out
Spirit
Good Song
Feels
Genuinely
How
Coming
Person
Any
Done
Decent
Anything
Then
Your
Expression
Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions.
Alex North
Today
Music
Gifted
Dreadful
TV
Composers
Record
Talent
Impose
Friday
Conditions
Expect
Get
Tuesday
Just
Decent
Script
I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three.
Alexander Payne
Three
Big
Think
Only
Decent
Peter
I have solid decent people around me, and I believe that is all it is, because you will get destroyed if you have people bringing you down.
Alicia Keys
Me
You
People
Will
Down
Believe
Solid
Destroyed
Because
Around
Get
Decent
Decent People
Bringing
The largest challenge that we face, from my perspective, is the ability to continue moving forward so the agency will have a single mission: that is, to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing.
Alphonso Jackson
Affordable Housing
Moving Forward
Perspective
Challenge
Will
Face
Single
Ability
Mission
Safe
Housing
Continue
Provide
Affordable
Decent
Moving
Agency
Forward
Largest
What you put in, you usually get out. If you are not good enough on the day, fine, but if you put in everything you have, you usually get a decent result. When you lose, it motivates you to go again, not dwell on the past.
Alun Wyn Jones
Good
Day
You
Result
Lose
Past
Not Good Enough
Enough
Everything
Out
Fine
Put
Go
Motivates
Get
Decent
Dwell
Again
When hard-working Brits hand over a chunk of their pay cheque every month so they can look forward to a decent retirement, they are expecting bosses to look after it. That's something you should be able to take for granted.
Amber Rudd
You
Take For Granted
Pay
Every
Brits
Chunk
Month
Able
Something
Bosses
Take
Retirement
Over
Look
Cheque
Hand
Expecting
Decent
After
Should
Granted
Forward
Hard-Working
To me, it's a little odd to ever think 'model into actor.' I modeled once. I was about as far from a decent model as you can possibly be. I did not enjoy the world at all. I fell in my stilettos quite a bit.
Analeigh Tipton
Me
You
World
Enjoy
Think
Once
Bit
Possibly
About
Fell
Odd
Model
Modeled
Did
Quite
Quite A Bit
Decent
Little
Far
Actor
Ever
I wasn't highly touted coming out of high school, so it wasn't like I was expecting to get a lot of minutes. For me, I didn't know how good a player I was, even though I think I did decent as a freshman.
Andre Iguodala
Good
Me
School
Think
Though
Out
High
Minutes
High School
Highly
Like
Know
How
Freshman
Coming
Lot
Get
Did
Expecting
Decent
Even
Player
My real passion is social justice, resolving the lack of empowerment, the lack of skills, the fact that young people can't get on the housing ladder, they feel they can't have a decent job, they feel they aren't in control of their lives.
Andrea Leadsom
Justice
People
Passion
Job
Control
Young
Ladder
Resolving
Fact
Feel
Empowerment
Housing
Real
Real Passion
Get
Lack
Decent
Young People
Social
Skills
Social Justice
Lives
I think I've always had a decent perspective on wins and losses on the tennis court.
Andy Roddick
Perspective
Think
Wins
Tennis
Had
Tennis Court
Court
Always
Losses
Decent
This country is not going to progress if we can't have decent civil conversations and be respectful to one another.
Angela Rye
Progress
Country
Respectful
Civil
Another
Going
Decent
Conversations
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