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• Common courtesy plays a big role in happy marriages. People who are permanently married are polite to one another. They don't want to hurt one another's feelings, and they don't try to make the other one feel humiliated. People who are married for life are extremely kind to one another.

  Frank Pittman

  Relationship, Hurt, Play

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• Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of 'touching' a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Heart, Men, Touching

  "Twelve Types". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1903.

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• My daughter is the biggest gift; I've said it so many times and it sounds like a cliche, but the thing about being a parent is when you think you've cracked it, and you're on top of your game, they change again and you have to catch up and adjust. I feel such a responsibility to instill good values in her, to be polite, to have discipline.

  Geri Halliwell

  Daughter, Mother, Responsibility

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• There's no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) 'Do you realize you've wasted your life?

  Daniel Dennett

  Religious, Atheism, Followers

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• The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling, and just about all the other accomplishments of polite society except the minuet.

  Judith Martin

  Food, Teaching, Accomplishment

  Judith Martin (1990). “Miss Manners' Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

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• It's hard to think of them polite flows when Stephano Polato suits are your night clothes, and Jordan sweat suits are your flight clothes, and you still make it even when they say your flight closed.

  Drake

  Humble, Night, Thinking

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• To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.

  Alexander Pope

  Ears, Hell, Courtesy

  'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To Lord Burlington' (1731) l. 149

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• Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Witty, Men, Thanks

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.159, Courier Corporation

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• All fame is is having people you don't know coming up to you and saying, 'Hello.' I'm always polite and people are always nice, but it's weird.

  Karl Pilkington

  Nice, People, Up To You

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Anyone who thinks we can continue to have world wars but make them nice polite affairs by outlawing this weapon or that should meditate upon the outlawing of the cross-bow by Papal authority. Setting up the machinery for international law and order must surely precede disarmament. The Wild West did not abandon its shooting irons till after sheriffs and courts were established.

  Joel Henry Hildebrand

  War, Nice, Thinking

  "Army's Atomic Bid Viewed in Making". Speech, American Library Association Conference (3 Jul 1947), New York Times, Jule 4, 1947.

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• People identify with the swashbuckling individuals, not polite little men who field their position well. Sir Galahad had a big following - but I'll bet Lancelot had more.

  Bill Veeck

  Baseball, Men, People

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• Citizens everywhere, and especially soldiers, should remember that entrenched bureaucracy, whatever the level, can be overcome. You've got to stick to it, be polite but firm, and just not take no for an answer.

  William G. Bainbridge

  Army, Soldier, Sticks

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• With a polite smile, I decided she was insane.

  Ann Aguirre

  Insane, Decided

  Ann Aguirre (2014). “The Razorland Trilogy”, p.640, Macmillan

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• Do what's right. Be on time, be polite, and be honest; remain free from drugs; and if you have any questions, get out your Bible. 2. Do your best. Mediocrity is unacceptable when you are capable of doing better. 3. Treat others as you want to be treated. Practice love and understanding.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Motivational, Practice

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• It's not considered polite in Russia to count the money in someone else's pocket.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Pockets

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• Yanking his inner manwhore back to the land of polite conversating, he forced his hands to stop

  J.R. Ward

  Hands, Land

  J.R. Ward (2011). “Lover Unleashed: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.84, Penguin

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• I know it may come as a shock, but it's sort of considered polite to wait for the consent of the woman. In fact, I'm pretty sure that if you don't wait, you may have to deal with pesky criminal charges like kidnapping and rape.

  Ilona Andrews

  Waiting, Criminals, May

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• In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.

  Stephen King

  Hobbies, Obsession

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• The uber polite people who are the neighbors to our north and how we can be so different and yet so the same because Canadians are supremely polite. They're kind and they're just so welcoming to a bunch of American and British artists here filming their show.

  Tamlyn Tomita

  Artist, People, Different

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• I'm often at odds with my colleagues, but I've managed to get legislation passed which will not even be attempted in other states. Rather than use the word "cooperate," I'll say there's kind of a peaceful coexistence, a wary watching of each other. I'm very courteous and polite, and people allow me to be. Some people have applied the term charming to me. I don't use that term unless I'm the snake charmer and they're the snake.

  Ernie Chambers

  People, Peaceful, Kind

  "The Maverick of Omaha". Interview With Michael Beckel, www.motherjones.com. January 5, 2006.

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• I don't think there is anything as powerful as an active heart. They do not fear the wisdom of emotion, but embody it. They know how to listen. They are polite when they need to be and unyielding when necessary. They remain open, even as they push boundaries and inhabit the margins, understanding eventually, the margins will move toward the center. They are tenacious, informed, patient, and impatient, at once. They do not shy away from what is difficult. They refuse to accept the unacceptable. The most effective activists I know are in love with the world.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Powerful, Moving, Heart

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• That quality is what makes women great collaborators; we understand it's a team effort. Even if it comes from society telling us to be polite.

  Rachel Bloom

  Team, Effort, Quality

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Women have got to stop being polite. If I ever had children, which I don't, the first thing I'd teach a girl of mine is the words 'f - off.'

  Helen Mirren

  Girl, Children, Firsts

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Off with you" is a phrase used by people who lack the curtesy to say something more polite, such as, "if there's nothing else you require I must be going" or "I'm sorry but I'm going to have to ask you to leave, please" or even "excuse me but I believe you have mistaken my home for your own and my valuable belongings for yours and I must ask you to return the items in question to me and leave my home after untying me from this chair, as I'm unable to do it myself, if it's not too much trouble.

  Daniel Handler

  Sorry, Believe, Home

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• You were honest and hardworking and kind. You were polite and patient and more mature than any guy I’d dated before. And when we were together, you listened in a way that made me feel like I was the only woman in the world. You made me feel complete and spending time with you just seemed right.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Guy, Together, World

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jul 28, 2011

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