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Why throw money at problems? That's what money is for. Should the nation's wealth be redistributed? It has been and continues to be redistributed to a few people in a manner strikingly unhelpful.
Kurt Vonnegut
A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir
Mahatma Gandhi
Wouldn't he know without being asked?' said Polly. 'I've no doubt he would,' said the Horse (still with his mouth full). 'But I've a sort of an idea he likes to be asked.
C.S. Lewis
If a man has good manners and is not afraid of other people he will get by, even if he is stupid.
David Eccles
Good manners and plenty of money will make my son a gentlemen.
Proverb
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.
Edmund Burke
Meat makes, and clothes shapes, but manners makes a man.
Scottish Proverb
Better good manners than good looks.
The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.
Mark Twain
Our humility rest upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
Margaret Mead
The only true source of politeness is consideration.
William Gilmore Simms
It depends on what we read, after all manner of Professors have done their best for us.
Thomas Carlyle
All doors open to courtesy.
Thomas Fuller
Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
Ambrose Bierce
Life is short, but there is always time for courtesy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courtesy Life be not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.
Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
Benjamin Franklin
Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.
Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.
William Shakespeare
The social dimension of reticence and nonacknowledgment is most developed in forms of politeness and deference. We don't want to tell people what we think of them, and we don't want to hear from them what they think of us, though we are happy to surmise their thoughts and feelings, and to have them surmise ours, at least up to a point. We don't, if we are reasonable, worry too much what they may say about us behind our backs, just as we often say things about a third party that we wouldn't say to his face. Since everyone participates in these practices, they aren't, or shouldn't be, deceptive. Deception is another matter, and sometimes we have reason to object to it, though sometimes we have no business knowing the truth, even about how someone really feels about us.http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/faculty/nagel/papers/exposure.html
Thomas Nagel, from Philosophy &
