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If you're glued together right and honorable, you will succeed. Get in there and get rid of stupidities and avoid bad people. Try teaching that to your grandchildren. The best way is by example. Fix yourself.
Charlie Munger / Business Person
Bad People
Best Way
Example
Grandchildren
Honorable
Succeed
Avoid
Glued
Rid
Stupidities
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I want to be part of making sure that decent, honorable, humble, hardworking people in Pennsylvania can look their kids in the eyes. And when they put in their 40 hours, they can say to their kids, 'I got you.'
Katie Mcginty /
Decent
Hardworking
Honorable
Pennsylvania
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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that God, now, is about to establish a kingdom on this earth, based upon brotherhood and peace. And the white man is against brotherhood, and the white man is against peace.
Malcolm X / Human Rights Activist
Brotherhood
Honorable
Muhammad
Establish
Teaches
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I always like to remind myself that the most honorable people of all are not those who never make mistakes, but those who admit to them when they do and then move on and do their best to right the wrongs they have made.
Yolanda Hadid /
Honorable
Best Myself Always
Best Myself People
Admit
Move On
Remind
Wrongs
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Lobbying is not a bad thing. I'm not trying to say that we shouldn't have lobbyists or we shouldn't have lobbying to petition our government. It's in the Constitution, and it's something that should be honorable and good.
Jack Abramoff / Lobbyist
Government
Honorable
Lobbying
Lobbyists
Trying
Good Government Bad
Bad Thing
Petition
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Full disclosure: James Comey is a friend. I won't pretend to neutrality about him. He is a highly honorable and decent person, and I have no doubt that he made the many judgments for which people loathe him in good faith.
Benjamin Wittes /
Decent
Disclosure
Good Faith
Honorable
Loathe
Neutrality
No Doubt
Pretend
James
Judgments
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When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it's a pretty honorable position to be in.
Eric Clapton / Musician
Alive
Honorable
Position
Responsibility
Tradition
Original
Blues
Recognize
Tend
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I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.
Rose Kennedy / Philanthropist
Parenting
Women
Children
Honorable
Interesting
Profession
Love Best Work
Child
Bring
Challenging
Demanded
Fully
Looked
Rearing
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Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating, honorable, and personally productive than full-time mothering and homemaking.
Dennis Prager / Radio Host
Advocating
Choices
Elevating
Feminism
Honorable
Feminists
Full-Time
Regards
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Instead of taking a very high-paying type of law job or something that I might be able to do, I have been a legislator. That's what I do. I think it's an honorable profession - if you're honest and have integrity and work hard.
Russ Feingold / Former U.s. Senate Member
Jobs
Hard Work
Honorable
Integrity
Profession
High-Paying
Legislator
Work Hard
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Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating, honorable, and personally productive than full-time mothering and making a home.
Dennis Prager / Radio Host
Home
Advocating
Choices
Elevating
Feminism
Feminist
Honorable
Feminists
Full-Time
Personally
Regards
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As far as 'Birdsong' is concerned, I think the television program made a very honorable attempt at it, but the truth of the matter is that adaptations of long, ambitious books very seldom transfer well to the screen, and why would they?
Sebastian Faulks / Novelist
Adaptation
Ambitious
Honorable
Program
Attempt
Screen
Seldom
Transfer
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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
E. O. Wilson / Biologist
Alone
Failure
Another Way
Committed
Effort
Endeavor
Forgiven
Honorable
Humanism
Lost
Memorable
Moral
Successful
Fail
Imperative
Provided
Quest
Whether
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Oliver Stone might think he's a guy who chews with his mouth open and yells at the hired help, but the George W. Bush I've spent nearly three hours with is a warm, funny, smart, engaged, compassionate, patriotic, decent and honorable man.
Mike Gallagher / Radio Host
Compassionate
Decent
Engaged
Honorable
Patriotic
Warm
Nearly
George W
George W. Bush
Mouth
Oliver
Oliver Stone
Stone
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I grew up in the Midwest, so I have sort of an honorable moral code. But I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city sort of aren't aware of manners and other ways of life and 'common decency.'
Derek Blasberg / Writer
Code
Decency
Honorable
Manners
Life City People
Joined
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In general, I think that not voting is a perfectly honorable and civic-minded course in an election with two options that you consider unacceptable. I think casting a protest vote is a totally acceptable course. I have done both in my life.
Ross Douthat / Author
Acceptable
Casting
Election
Honorable
Vote
Voting
Life Done My Life
Totally
General
Consider
Course
Options
Perfectly
Unacceptable
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To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
Orison Swett Marden / Author
Opportunity
Success
Competence
Elements
Honesty
Honorable
Tainted
Wealth
Young Man
Youth
Holds
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In 1968, America was a wounded nation. The wounds were moral ones; the Vietnam War and three summers of inner-city riots had inflicted them on the national soul, challenging Americans' belief that they were a uniquely noble and honorable people.
Thurston Clarke /
War
America
Belief
Honorable
Moral
Noble
Soul
Three
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Wounded
Had
War People America
Them
Challenging
Nation
Inflicted
Riots
Summers
Uniquely
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When I went to the prosecutor's office, I wanted to be one of the good guys that the defense could trust. I'd try fair, clean cases, pull no punches, no below-the-belt stuff. Honorable. Because that's the kind of prosecutor I wanted to deal with.
Marcia Clark / Prosecutor
Cases
Defense
Honorable
Prosecutor
Good Guys
Pull
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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.
Malcolm X / Human Rights Activist
Honorable
Muhammad
Incentive
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The Afghans I met were some of the nicest and most honorable people I've ever encountered. There is a code called 'Pashtunwali,' so if someone invites you into their village, every last man will fight to protect your life. I was impressed by that.
Brad Thor / Novelist
Code
Honorable
Impressed
Invites
Village
Afghans
Encountered
Nicest
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We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.
Malcolm X / Human Rights Activist
America
Honorable
Hypocritical
Integration
Law
Muhammad
White
Black People Way
Pretend
Forcing
Pass
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The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint, it's an honorable thing to spend all day and all night in front of your canvas - that is the romantic vision of the painter.
Nick Cave / Musician
Art
Romantic
Art School
Canvas
Honorable
Night
Paint
School
Vision
Work Ethic
Art Work Music
All Day
Amongst
Ethic
Work Art Music
Front
Spend
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It's not all 'Jane Eyre' out there. In her sweet, honorable, slightly passive-aggressive way, Jane was as perfect as a protagonist can get while remaining interesting; in fact, she's one of my favorites. But most characters are more morally ambiguous.
Susan Isaacs /
Ambiguous
Honorable
Jane
Favorites
In Fact
Protagonist
Remaining
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Since There are so many questions about what the president was doing over 30 years ago, what is it that he did after his honorable discharge from the National Guard? Did he make speeches alongside Jane Fonda denouncing America's racist war in Vietnam?
Jeff Gannon / Columnist
War
America
Discharge
Honorable
Jane
National Guard
Vietnam
Years
Years Ago
Alongside
Fonda
Guard
Jane Fonda
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The honorable William Penn, late governor of Pennsylvania, was chosen agent to the Court of Britain, and directed to deliver the petition to the King himself and to endeavor by his personal influence to procure a favorable reception to this last address.
Mercy Otis Warren / Writer
Kings
Agents
Britain
Chosen
Court
Endeavor
Honorable
Influence
Pennsylvania
Reception
Address
Agent
Deliver
Directed
Favorable
William
Governor
Penn
Petition
Procure
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While few human challenges are greater than that of being good parents, few opportunities offer greater potential for joy. Surely, no more important work is to be done in this world than preparing our children to be God-fearing, happy, honorable, and productive.
James E. Faust / Lawyer
Honorable
Important Work
Preparing
Surely
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It is remarkable that there is little or nothing to be remembered written on the subject of getting a living: how to make getting a living not merely honest and honorable, but altogether inviting and glorious; for if getting a living is not so, then living is not.
Henry David Thoreau / Author
Honest
Honorable
Littles
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There's such cultural rot taking place, such a disintegration throughout our culture. Values, morality, you name it. Standards have been relaxed, and people are not being held to them. People's intentions, if they're said to be good and honorable, that's all that matters.
Rush Limbaugh / Talk Show Host
Good
Culture
Disintegration
Honorable
Morality
Names
People
Relaxed
Said
Standards
Being
Good Culture People
Been
Name
Cultural
Matters
Held
Intentions
Place
Rot
Taking
Throughout
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The men I write can be intense, quiet, outspoken and outrageous, deadly or fun... but I would never waste time on a hero who wasn't honorable, who didn't protect those who couldn't protect themselves, who didn't value children and pets, who wasn't independent and unselfish.
Lori Foster / Writer
Hero
Honorable
Intense
Outrageous
Quiet
Unselfish
Waste
Deadly
Pets
Waste Time
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At times I have long conversations with God. Sometimes I ask questions. I admit that there are also times when I let out my frustrations, fears, and anxieties in less than honorable ways. No matter what I pray about or how I pray about it, the result I always get is comfort.
Iyanla Vanzant / Spiritual Teacher
Anxiety
Comfort
Frustration
Honorable
Long
Pray
Admit
Anxieties
Conversations
Fears
Frustrations
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Gerald R. Ford was a decent and honorable man. Under his steady hand, the nation began the process of recovering from the terrible trauma of Watergate - the lies, distortions, cover-ups, misuses of federal agencies to exact political revenge, illegal wiretapping, burglaries.
Richard Ben-Veniste / Lawyer
Decent
Honorable
Illegal
Recovering
Revenge
Steady
Watergate
Agencies
Exact
Ford
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It neither is reason nor in any wise to be suffered that the young king, our master and kinsman, should be in the hands of custody of his mother's kindred, sequestered in great measure from our company and attendance, the which is neither honorable to his majesty nor unto us.
Richard Iii Of England / King Of England
Wise
Attendance
Custody
Honorable
Majesty
Suffered
Master
Measure
Neither
Unto
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My great-grandfather and his two brothers fought at Gettysburg. They were in artillery, and they survived the war, thank goodness. So I revere what they did. I think their motivations were honorable when they undertook the war and participated in it along with other Southerners.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Artillery
Gettysburg
Goodness
Great Grandfather
Honorable
Survived
Fought
Motivations
Revere
Southerners
Thank
Thank Goodness
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Self-deception is so far from impossible that it is one of the most ordinary phenomena with which we are acquainted. Nothing is more usual than for a man to impute his actions to honorable motives when it is nearly demonstrable that they flowed from some corrupt and contemptible force.
William Godwin / Journalist
Honorable
Ordinary
Self Deception
Usual
Acquainted
Actions
Corrupt
Nearly
Contemptible
Phenomena
Motives
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The Republican Party of Richard Nixon was called to power in 1968 to bring an honorable end to the war in Vietnam and restore law and order to campuses and cities convulsed by crime, riots and racial violence. Nixon appeared to have succeeded and was rewarded with a 49-state landslide.
Pat Buchanan / Former Assistant To The President For Communications
Cities
Honorable
Law And Order
Republican Party
Vietnam
Appeared
Landslide
Nixon
Racial
Restore
Rewarded
Richard Nixon
Succeeded
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Even though I was making documentaries, my films had fictional elements to them. I think I like blurring those distinctions because so much of what we see on television purports to be the truth, but it's often largely imaginary - or wishful thinking, or any number of less honorable things.
Ruth Ozeki / Novelist
Documentaries
Elements
Honorable
Imaginary
Numbers
Thinking
Wishful Thinking
Distinctions
Fictional
Largely
Wishful
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Why can't it be awesome to work for a food company? Why can't we create an environment where people are trying to push each other to do great things, and we're not trying to steal from anybody - we're trying to be good to our farmers and run an honorable business, if there is such a thing anymore?
David Chang / Chef
Environment
Great Things
Honorable
Work Good Business
Anymore
Awesome
Work Business Good
Push
Steal
Such A Thing
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In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.
Viktor E. Frankl / M.d.
Positive
Achieve
Action
Beloved
Desolation
Fulfillment
Honorable
May
Position
Right Way
Man
He
Cannot
Carries
Through
Utter
Consist
Enduring
Express
Himself
His
Image
Loving
Right
Sufferings
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Back before our civilization despised itself, we applauded tough men. But you can't produce tough men - or honorable women - without tough love. If you want to keep civilization, you better start by insisting that boys grow up, instead of trying to infantilize them so they're afraid to stop sucking their thumbs.
Milo Yiannopoulos / Journalist
Despised
Honorable
Insisting
Thumbs
Love Men Women
Applauded
Love Women Men
Sucking
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It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honorable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind?
Emilie Autumn / Singer-Songwriter
Depression
Accepted
Fighter
Honor
Honorable
Inevitable
Inevitable Death
Insane
Suicide
Life Death Your
Attack
Centuries
Chooses
Deed
Encouraged
Even Now
Lead
In Fact
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I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.
Adam Driver / Actor
Chicago
Honorable
Juilliard
Patriotic
Life Time My Life
Join
Mcdonald
Marines
Rent
Too Much Time
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I'm the lucky father to two young men. When any of your kids, and your parents feel this way about you, clearly, when your kids find what they love to do and they throw themselves into it, and they find joy in the doing of it, and it's actually work that's honorable, and, you know, all of those things, it's a great feeling.
Peter Hedges / Novelist
Honorable
Love Work Men
Great Feeling
Young Men
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There must be an alternative between Hollywood and New York, between those two places psychically as well as geographically. The University of Iowa tries to offer such a community, congenial to the young writer, with his uneasiness about writing as an honorable career, or with his excess of ego about calling himself a writer.
Paul Engle / Poet
New York
Excess
Hollywood
Honorable
Iowa
University
Writing
Alternative
Congenial
Places
Tries
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Do you not know that the largest trees, which have required years to grow, are cut down in one hour? It is foolish to look for their fruits and yet to be unprepared for their fall. Let it be your consolation, then, that God's enemies, however honorable and exalted they may have been, shall nevertheless fade away like the smoke.
Thomas Becket / Saint
Consolation
Exalted
Foolish
Honorable
Nevertheless
Smoke
Unprepared
God Your Look
Cut
Enemies
Fade
Fruits
Hour
Largest
Required
Shall
Trees
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The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.'
Paul Ryan / United States Representative
Equality
Opportunity
Abraham
Commitment
Constant
Founding
Giving
Honorable
Said
Slave
Freedom Equality Opportunity
Alike
Assure
Meant
Lincoln
Striving
Preserve
Union
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I am endorsing Sen. Cruz because I have worked with him in the trenches, fought battles with him on the Hill, and he has proven himself to be honorable, tough, and a man of his word. He votes the way he says he will vote. He backs his words with action. I respect that, and for that reason, I think he will make a great president.
Paul Gosar /
Respect
Action
Cruz
Endorsing
Honorable
President
Proven
Tough
Trenches
Vote
Respect Great Man
Great Man I Am
Backs
Battles
Fought
Himself
Word
Says
Votes
Worked
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I believe that my worth is not measured by what I do, by the honors that are bestowed upon me, or by material wealth that I might obtain. Instead, I am measured by the courage I show while standing for my beliefs, by the dedication I exhibit to ensure my word is good, and the resolve I undertake to establish my actions and deeds as honorable.
Burgess Owens /
Courage
Good
Dedication
Deeds
Honorable
Material Wealth
Might
Resolve
Standing
Wealth
Actions
Me
Am
Beliefs
Bestowed
Show
Ensure
Establish
Exhibit
Honors
Instead
Word
Material
Obtain
Undertake
While
Worth
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