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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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Treats
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People
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Manners

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Either we figure out how to keep corporate cash out of the political system or we lose the democracy.
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Every two years, one of the most hotly contested elections in Texas is the poll taken among members of the capitol press corps to determine who are actually the ten stupidest members of the Legislature. Two years ago, there were thirty-seven official nominees and several write-ins.
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What stuns me most about contemporary politics is not even that the system has been so badly corrupted by money. It is that so few people get the connection between their lives and what the bozos do in Washington and our state capitols.
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What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.
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You could probably prove, by judicious use of logarithms and congruent triangles, that real life is a lot more like soap opera than most people will admit.
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The Founders were right all along, but the results are a lot funnier than they intended.
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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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Democracy requires a certain relish for confusion
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It's hard to convince people that you're killing them for their own good.
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We've had trickle down economics in the country for ten years now, and most of us aren't even damp yet.
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You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.
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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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Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences.
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I still believe in Hope - mostly because there's no such place as Fingers Crossed, Arkansas.
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I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
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Even I felt sorry for Richard Nixon when he left there's nothing you can do about being born liberal - fish gotta swim and hearts gotta bleed.
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Michael Jackson was a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich white woman
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Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us.
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The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.
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Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.
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