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Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people.

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Molly Ivins
Age: 62 †
Born: 1944
Born: August 30
Died: 2007
Died: January 31
Columnist
Journalist
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Monterey
California
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Formal
Manners
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Treats
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It's hard to convince people that you're killing them for their own good.
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Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.
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So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.
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Conservatives have been mad at the Supreme Court since it decided to desegregate the schools in 1954 and seen fit to blame the federal bench for everything that has happened since then that they don't like.
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When Michael Jackson, a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich, white woman, married Elvis Presley's daughter the Scientologist. Makes you proud to be an American, dudn't it?
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As for George Bush of Kennebunkport, Maine- personally I think he's further evidence that the Great Scriptwriter in the Sky has an overdeveloped sense of irony.
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Texas is a fine place for men and dogs, but hell on women and horses.
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In city rooms and in the bars where newspeople drink, you can find out what's going on. You can't find it in the papers.
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Whenever you hear a politician carry on about what a mess the schools are, be aware that you are looking at the culprit.
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Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.
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...you could have knocked me over with Michael Huffington's brain.
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no one has ever accused Texas of being in the vanguard of social progress. This is the most macho state in the U.S. of A. By lore, legend, and fact, Texas is 'hell' on women and horses.
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Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.
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Texas is not a civilized place. Texans shoot one another a lot. They also knife, razor, and stomp one another to death with some frequency. And they fight in bars all the time.
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On a personal note: I have contracted an outstanding case of breast cancer, from which I intend to recover. I don't need get-well cards, but I would like the beloved women readers to do something for me: Go. Get. The. Damn. Mammogram. Done.
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I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying - it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off.
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Democracy requires a certain relish for confusion
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If you ever get to the place where injustice doesn't bother you, you're dead.
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What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.
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I know: Guns Don't Kill People. But I suspect that they have something to do with it. If you point your finger at someone and say, Bang, bang, you're dead, not much actually happens.
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