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• We must control the tendencies within our being that are destructive, when we want to slam somebody else, hurt them, injure them, or push them out of the way. A reverence for life needs to be developed, in which all things are sacred.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Hurt, Buddhism

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• If you can't think of an enlightened person positively, don't think of them at all.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Thinking

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• It is very important to always hold the thought of an enlightened teacher in your mind in a very positive way. When you direct negative energy towards someone who is powerful, it has a terrible bounce-back effect.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Powerful

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• If you aren’t going to say something directly to someone’s face, than don’t use online as an opportunity to say it. It is this sense of bravery that people get when they are anonymous that gives the blogosphere a bad reputation.

  Mena Grabowski Trott

  Opportunity, People, Giving

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• In a hockey fight, barring the occasional brawl, theres actually some etiquette that goes into it. Honor, too, absolutely. Most of those guys that do it, thats their job, and they follow a certain code of conduct in doing it.

  Tom Glavine

  Jobs, Fighting, Hockey

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• I make a distinction between manners and etiquette - manners as the principles, which are eternal and universal, etiquette as the particular rules which are arbitrary and different in different times, different situations, different cultures.

  Judith Martin

  Principles, Different, Culture

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• Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.

  Emily Post

  Feelings, Awareness Of Others, Sensitive

  "Reader's Digest" Magazine, Vol. 68, 1956.

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• Etiquette is what you are doing and saying when people are looking and listening. What you are thinking is your business.

  Virginia Cary Hudson

  Thinking, People, Listening

  Virginia Cary Hudson (1964). “O Ye Jigs & Juleps”

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• Human beings everywhere in the world are affected by the global media now. Still, what I have noticed in the east Asia, in the indigenous world, Alaska in particular, and in back country farm and ranch country, is a higher sense of etiquette, and more respectful manners. Urban middle class cosmopolitan world peoples of all races have become speedy and rude. This is a pretty big generalization though.

  Gary Snyder

  Country, Rude, World

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• In general, I'm not much into etiquette and am a rule-breaker and rebel by nature.

  Chip Conley

  Rebel

  "The Five Fundamentals of Management Etiquette" by Chip Conley, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2012.

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• A code of behavior is an inevitable part of life in any community, and if we hadn't inherited ours, we should have had to invent one.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Should Have, Community, Behavior

  Millicent Fenwick (1948). “Vogue's book of etiquette: a complete guide to traditional forms and modern usage”

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• Etiquette is the grease that makes it possible for all of us to rub together without unnecessary overheating.

  Russell Baker

  Grease, Together, Moral

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• When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them. That is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself. In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better.

  Mark Twain

  Prayer, Odds, Waiting

  Mark Twain (2010). “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, p.8, Collector's Library

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• This study is not for the amateur. It's not for the dilettante. It's not for the cult follower. It's not for someone who wants everything done for them. It's not for the one who just wants to stare with that fixed dog-like devotion towards the teacher.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dog, Teacher, Buddhist

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• The hallmark of a person who is following the pathway to enlightenment is that they bring excellence into everything, no matter how crappy they feel.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Excellence

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• Once in a while, you will see someone really drippy. The person has to stare at the teacher all the time with that devoted and disgusting and sick look. It's boring, misplaced devotionalism.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• One should never become devoted to a teacher, any more than one should become devoted to a statue of a god. There is only one thing to be devoted to, and that is your mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• Get your emotions under control and your life under control. Work really hard and don't make a big deal out of yourself. Have humility. Believe in yourself. Don't get a fanatical fixation on a teacher.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Believe

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• Don't preach about meditation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Meditation

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• If you respect it in others, you respect it in yourself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Ifs

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• No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Winter, Animal, Heroic

  Kenneth Grahame (1908). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.76

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• Etiquette? What kind of etiquette was there in someone trying to murder me?

  Jennifer Estep

  Trying, Kind, Murder

  Jennifer Estep (2012). “Mythos Academy Bundle: First Frost, Touch of Frost, Kiss of Frost & Dark Frost”, p.454, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• Apparently you don't have to observe the Rules of Etiquette when reuniting with a muderous spouse.

  Jennifer Rardin

  Reuniting, Spouse

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• Etiquette requires the presumption of good until the contrary is proved.

  Emily Post

  Presumption, Contrary

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• There is a strange taboo in our society against ending something merely because it is not pleasant-- life, love, a conversation, you name it, the etiquette is that you must begin in ignorance & persevere in the face of knowledge, & though I naturally believe that this is profoundly wrong it's not nice to go around constantly offending people.

  Helen DeWitt

  Nice, Believe, Love Life

  Helen DeWitt (2016). “The Last Samurai”, p.136, New Directions Publishing

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