Manners Quote by Margaret Mead

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“Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.”

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The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does…

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The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.

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If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls…

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

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Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

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Women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for…

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we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own…

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WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.

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Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.

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today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.

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We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what…

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Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.

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Good manners are not bred in moments, but in years.

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Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time.

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My grandparents were far more English in their manners than they were Chinese. For example, we spoke English at home, had afternoon tea every…

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To be polite to everybody except the people they love most is a nervous affectation that afflicts many families ... when they come home,…

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I don't do plays without jokes anymore. I've retired from those plays. I think it's bad manners to invite people to sit in the…

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To follow good manners willingly is like paving the road and to tell somebody to follow them is like the road which is always…

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The only way to have a funeral is to invite everyone who ever knew the person and just wait for the accident to happen-somebody…

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The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable…

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I have been missing the point. The point is not knowing another person, or learning to love another person. The point is simply this:…

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One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.

Henry David Thoreau

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“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.”

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Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.

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