Quote by Emily Post
Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is th

Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor. – Emily Post

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To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a “home” might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation. – Emily Post

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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. – Emily Post

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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 which fork you use. – Emily Post

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Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive it can tell us about causes but it cannot tell us about purposes. Indeed, science disavows purposes. – Jonathan Sacks

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It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide. – Friedrich August von Hayek

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We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature. – Robert Lanza

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Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists. – Roland Joffe

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The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad. – A.K. Best

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Ive always kind of had an interest in the drums but nothing else. The drums are the only thing I feel I would be good at, because Im a very physical person. Ive always played sports and stuff. Drums would give me something to do. – Taylor Lautner

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Let me be thankful first, because I never was robbed before; second, because although they took my purse, they did not take my life; third, although they took my all, it was not much; and fourthly, because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed. – Matthew Henry (1662–1714)

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Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month I can be myself. – Roseanne Barr

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