Quote by Jonathan Swift
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we c

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room. – Jonathan Swift

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind. – Jonathan Swift

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Death
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Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction. – Jonathan Swift

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Seduction
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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. – Jonathan Swift

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I dont think theres any artist of any value who doesnt doubt what theyre doing. – Francis Ford Coppola

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Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you. – Martha Beck

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Good architecture lets nature in. – Mario Pei (1901–1978)

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The giant white cube is now impeding rather than enhancing the rhythms of art. It preprograms a viewers journey, shifts the emphasis from process to product, and lacks individuality and openness. Its not that art should be seen only in rutty bombed-out environments, but it should seem alive. – Jerry Saltz

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I have a book out called The Beauty Equation and it discusses how off track we have gone in considering beauty. – Nigel Barker

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You know whats funny? I dont ever feel the need to escape. I have a strong marriage. I like my life. You hear about these guys having midlife crises – I dont see that happening to me. – Harry Connick, Jr.

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If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect. – Jacques Yves Cousteau

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Back in the East you cant do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power. – Tom Stoppard

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