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Boast quietly, with decorum.
Mason Cooley /
Boast
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Don't limp in front of the lame.
Francois Rabelais / Writer
Decorum
Fronts
Lame
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Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
Thomas Carlyle / Philosopher
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Necessity
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Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.
Mason Cooley /
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Morality
Path
Open
Observe
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I'm a CEO of a public company. You have to show decorum.
Ivan Glasenberg /
Ceo
Company
Decorum
Show
Public
Public Company
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Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!
Robert Burns / Poet
Cant
Decorum
Characters
Lose
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What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact.
Donald E. Williams, Jr. / Lawyer
Absence
Decorum
Ironic
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Another soldier has been killed. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.
William C. Brown / Engineer
Art
Decorum
Soldier
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I have no limits, no filter, no class, no poise. No decorum. Just fun.
Kathy Griffin / Actress
Class
Decorum
Filters
Fun
Limits
Poise
Filter
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
Abbie Hoffman / Social Activist
Men
Decorum
Dignity
Repression
Speak
Speaks Out
Free
Free Men
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Gracefulness is a correct life: sensuality which contemplates and forms itself.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel / Poet
Decorum
Form
Sensuality
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I don't want to worry about maintaining an air of decorum that's not natural to me.
Taron Egerton / Actor
Air
Decorum
Maintaining
Worry
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A film has to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience.
Chuck Palahniuk / Novelist
Audience
Decorum
Broadcast
Vast
Maintain
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There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum.
Thorstein Veblen / Economist
Respect
Breach
Decorum
Revulsion
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Howard and Shirley were clothed, always, in an invisible layer of decorum that they never laid aside.
J. K. Rowling / Novelist
Decorum
Invisible
Layers
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Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
Charles Caleb Colton / Writer
Women
Decorum
Greater
Length
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You have to adhere to a certain morality, a certain level of decorum, or else you'll be punished and labeled.
Margaret Cho / Comedian
Decorum
Levels
Morality
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Unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency should be quietly hanged as a matter of public sanitation and decorum.
H. L. Mencken / Journalist
Decorum
Matter
Should
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There has to be some decorum left in politics and in American journalism as well. Our husbands are the candidates.
Cindy Mccain / Businesswoman
Candidates
Decorum
Husbands
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Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.
Georg C. Lichtenberg /
Men
Covered
Decorum
Every Man
Long
Morality
Trousers
Backside
Showing
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This country deserves a statesman who can represent the people with proper decorum, respect, and knowledge of what's happening in the world, and I don't believe that Donald Trump represents any of that.
Michael Kelly /
Knowledge
Respect
Decorum
Trump
Represent
Donald
Donald Trump
Happening
Proper
Statesman
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The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency.
Gail Collins / Journalist
War
Abolition
America
Black And White
Civil War
Crisis
Decorum
Suspended
Rules
Civil
Confronted
Due
Period
Emergency
Sexual
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At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds.
Salvatore Quasimodo / Author
Age
Continuity
Decorum
Formal
Interrupted
Linked
Nuclear
Poetic
Preoccupation
Sound
Explosion
Recover
Sediment
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I believe in choosing your words very carefully. It's funny: I'll get comments like, 'Oh I love you. You don't care; you have no filter.' On the contrary, I absolutely have a filter, because I understand decorum, and my objective is not to upset people.
Iliza Shlesinger / Comedian
Funny
Care
Contrary
Decorum
Don't Care
Love You
Upset
Words
Love Believe Your
Because
Very
Absolutely
Understand
Oh
Carefully
Choosing
Comments
Filter
Objective
On The Contrary
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Presidents should do whatever possible and practical to encourage an environment of cooperation and bipartisanship. And they should maintain a certain level of decorum, diplomacy and decency. But, at the end of the day, presidents get elected to enact change.
Mark Mckinnon / Advisor
Bipartisanship
Certain
Cooperation
Decency
Decorum
Diplomacy
Environment
Levels
President
Should
The End Of The Day
Change End Of The Day Day
Certain Level
Possible
Elected
Enact
End Of The Day
Whatever
Maintain
Practical
Presidents
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There's a difference between being a drag queen on TV where the masses can tune in and watch, and then at a nightclub where you have to be a certain age to get in. There's a different decorum. We're all trying to push boundaries, but also trying to stay in our lane.
Manila Luzon / Drag Queen
Boundaries
Decorum
Drag
Certain Age
Lane
Masses
Nightclub
Push
Tune
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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
Walter Scott / Baronet Scott
Chance
Men
Action
Crowded
Decorum
Existence
Filled
Glorious
Honor
Mean
Noble
Observation
Sluggish
Whole
Years
Through
Full
Either
Hour
Marsh
Paltry
Risks
Steal
Waters
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It is important that the decorum and dignity of the House is upheld at all times. The image of Parliament in the public mind should be one where proceedings, debates and discussions take place with a view to resolve issues through a constructive and co-operative approach.
Pratibha Patil / Former President Of India
Approach
Constructive
Decorum
Dignity
House
Issues
Parliament
Resolve
Views
Co-Operative
Debates
Discussions
Public Mind
View
Upheld
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Rock music has always embraced - and even represented - rebellion, rowdiness, and a robust disdain for social decorum. But along with more classical art forms like theater, opera, and the symphony, it's suffering from the distracted, smartphone-carrying audiences of the digital age.
Elizabeth Flock /
Decorum
Digital
Digital Age
Disdain
Distracted
Opera
Rebellion
Robust
Rock Music
Symphony
Art Age Music
Art Forms
Classical
Embraced
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Oftentimes, if you're talking to a seasoned interviewer who asks you a question, they may do a follow-up if they didn't quite get it. It's rare that they'll do a third or fourth or fifth or sixth follow-up, because there's an implicit, agreed-upon decorum that they move on. Kids don't necessarily move on if they don't get it.
Brian Greene / Theoretical Physicist
Kids
Decorum
Fifth
Follow Up
Fourth
Implicit
Moving
Talking
Rare
Sixth
Interviewer
Move On
Oftentimes
Seasoned
Third
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