Emily Post Quotes
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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I think 4 percent growth is a good goal. And I think the fact that we have become used to an economy that sort of putt putts along between 1 and 2 percent is sort of tragic.
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I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.
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I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it was not so much a celebration but the relief. It was an exorcism anxiety. After each race there is a procedure in which you get taken off to the podium and the TV interviews.
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The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
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I have been the victim of heartless malice.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.
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I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.
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Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.
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Spain used to be very individualistic in its sporting activities. Now we are showing we are pretty good in teams - that is an improvement.
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There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.
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We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.
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I'm an atheist. I don't 'believe' at all.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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I've always wanted to work with dogs, so in high school, I worked at the Humane Society for a little while. I honestly think, even today, that would be the other career I would go into. Somehow I would be involved with animals.
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India may be a land of over a 100 problems, but it is also a place for a billion solutions.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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What a good novelist does with a throwaway that serves no fictional purpose is throw it away.
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I really enjoy what I'm doing. I think you have to have a good time and not look too far back or too far ahead.
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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.
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I look at trees, hunt mushrooms, and watch animals. Fishing is what gets me out into the woods so I can notice these things.
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Performing outside, you have to wear sunscreen.
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Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.
