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He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest. – Walter Benjamin

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Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation. – Walter Benjamin

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Birth
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Walter Benjamin
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All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate. – Walter Benjamin

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Charity
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Walter Benjamin
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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know. – Walter Benjamin

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Opinion
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Better good manners than good looks. – Proverb

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Manners

To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue. – Proverb

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Manners

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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Manners

Of course, behaviorism works. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviorist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public. – W. H. Auden

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Manners

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We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, its only us. And were only responsible to make ourselves happy. – Tom Brady

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In the end, who among us does not choose to be a little less right to be a little less lonely. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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I feel like people start to believe things that people say about them and start to think theyre really important. If you have a family that is down to earth and cool, I dont see how you can be like that. – Amanda Bynes

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Jump pilots have an open door policy. – Author Unknown

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