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• The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Lying, Deceit, Telling The Truth

  Malcolm Bradbury (2012). “Stepping Westward”, p.172, Pan Macmillan

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• So, to say Obama is progress is saying that he’s the first black person that is qualified to be president. That’s not black progress. That’s white progress. There’s been black people qualified to be president for hundreds of years. The question is, you know, my kids are smart, educated, beautiful, polite children. There have been smart, educated, beautiful, polite black children for hundreds of years. The advantage that my children have is that my children are encountering the nicest white people that America has ever produced. Let’s hope America keeps producing nicer white people.

  Chris Rock

  Beautiful, Children, Smart

  Interview with Frank Rich, www.vulture.com. November 30, 2014.

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• No use to preach to the working-man courtesy & politeness when at the same time the working-man is not given working conditions under which he can stay polite and soft-mannered.

  B. Traven

  Men, Use, Working Conditions

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• Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation.

  John Yoo

  Pain, Law, Definitions

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• We must stop being polite and behaved and find new inventive tactics to shift the paradigm. We are the majority.

  Eve Ensler

  Majority, Tactics, Paradigm

  "One Billion Rising" by Eve Ensler, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2012.

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• The secret of a happy marriage is simple: Just keep on being as polite to one another as you are to your friends.

  Robert Quillen

  Simple, Secret, Happy Marriage

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• Emily Post says that talking about oneself isn't very polite.' 'I'm sure Miss Post is perfectly correct, but that doesn't seem to stop the rest of us.

  Amor Towles

  Talking, Missing, Posts

  Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility”, p.34, Hachette UK

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• There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.

  Daniel Dennett

  People, Way, Illusion

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• Because Cards' fans are the most knowledgeable and loyal in all of baseball, they booed almost reluctantly, polite as booing goes, what would have passes as a standing ovation in Philly.

  Buzz Bissinger

  Baseball, Fans, Ovation

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• There is no polite way to suggest to someone that they have devoted their life to a folly.

  Daniel Dennett

  Way, Folly, Theist

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• No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Home, Ethos, People

  Charles Alexander Eastman (2003). “The Soul of the Indian”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• It is harder to lie in an interview. A good interview - and it can be polite - is not a one way street like a candidate controlled ad. An interview is not programmed by the candidate and so the candidate can't be exactly sure what will be asked.

  Greta Van Susteren

  Lying, Way, Interviews

  "Candidate Fundraising: Is This All Messed Up, or Am I Wrong?" by Greta Van Susteren, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2012.

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• People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with quick words, so it's great.

  Audrey Tautou

  New York, People, France

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.

  Voltaire

  Inspiring, Moving, Heart

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• It's a great group of people here at Texas A&M, and everybody you run into is incredibly polite.

  Johnny Manziel

  Running, Texas, People

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• I am an incorrigible devotee to solitude, and am never so cheerful, I believe, or so unruffled by small difficulties as when I'm alone. There's a sort of obligation to be polite and pleasant to yourself when nobody else is round.

  Susan Hale

  Believe, Solitude, Cheerful

  Susan Hale (1918). “Letters of Susan Hale”

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• Giving free advice is a sad waste of effort. In the first place, no man will act upon it unless he is already inclined to do so. Secondly, when a man lays his case before you, the idea that he is asking your advice is a polite fabrication. He merely is suggesting that he is doing so, while as a fact his real object is to acquaint you with his personal activity. He wants to talk to somebody, being a natural gossip or gadder, and he plays upon your propensity for "giving advice" in order to get an audience.

  William H. McMaster

  Real, Men, Order

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• Among the innumerable monuments of architecture constructed by the Romans, how many have escaped the notice of history, how few have resisted the ravages of time and barbarism! And yet even the majestic ruins that are still scattered over Italy and the provinces, would be sufficient to prove that those countries were once the seat of a polite and powerful empire.

  Edward Gibbon

  Country, Powerful, History

  Edward Gibbon (1998). “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.37, Wordsworth Editions

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• Political correctness is what right-wing bigots call what everybody else calls being polite

  Iain Banks

  Wings, Political, Right Wing

  Iain Banks (2008). “Dead Air”, p.118, Hachette UK

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• Glasgow is less polite than Edinburgh but that's a good thing - they keep it very real.

  Nik Kershaw

  Real, Edinburgh, Good Things

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• As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.

  Karl Ove Knausgard

  Want, Please, Persons

  "Karl Ove Knausgaard: 'I have given away my soul'". Interview With Jon Henley, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2012.

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• Americans are incredibly polite as long as they get what they want.

  Ben Fountain

  Long, Want

  Ben Fountain (2012). “Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk”, p.36, Canongate Books

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• It's still so rare for anyone to be personally acknowledged by a brand that the impact of such a simple, polite gesture on a customer's buying habits could be huge.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Simple, Impact, Gestures

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• Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue in the American, not the British, sense as deep ultramarine, and its manners are studiously polite.

  Jonathan Raban

  Blue, Cities, Manners

  Jonathan Raban (2017). “Driving Home: An American Scrapbook”, p.378, Pan Macmillan

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• I can be very polite, but I've found that doesn't always get a result. You have got to bang and thump tables.

  Joy Baluch

  Bangs, Tables, Manners

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