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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.

~Abbie Hoffman

Topics: Decorum Dignity Free Free Men Men Only Out Repression Speak

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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

Topics: Ask Because Decorum Fifth Follow-Up Fourth Get Implicit Interviewer Kids May Move Move On Necessarily Oftentimes Question Quite Rare Seasoned Sixth Talking Third Who You

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A film has to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Audience Broadcast Certain Decorum Film Maintain Order Vast

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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

Topics: Age Along Always Art Art Forms Audiences Classical Decorum Digital Digital Age Disdain Distracted Embraced Even Forms Like More Music Opera Rebellion Robust Rock Rock Music Social Suffering Symphony Theater

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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

Topics: Abolition About America Black Black And White Civil Civil War Confronted Crisis Decorum Due Emergency Every How Middle Other Period Rules Sexual Slavery Suspended War Were White Women

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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

Topics: Covered Decorum Every Every Man He His Keeps Long Man Moral Possible Showing Trousers Unless Which

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