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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
Writer
Monterey
California
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Manners
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Treats
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People

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Some days, I'd feel better with Punxsutawney Phil in the Oval Office - at least he doesn't lie about the weather.
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I know vegetarians don't like to hear this, but God made an awful lot of land that's good for nothing but grazing.
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I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.
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It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.
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My friend Mercedes Pena made me get in touch with my emotions just before I had a breast cut off. Just as I suspected, they were awful. How do you Latinas do this all the time in touch with your emotions? I asked her. That's why we take siestas, she replied.
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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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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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And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.
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It's hard to convince people that you're killing them for their own good.
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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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It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.
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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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Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.
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During a recent panel on the numerous failures of American journalism, I proposed that almost all stories about government should begin: “Look out! They're about to smack you around again!
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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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If you ever get to the place where injustice doesn't bother you, you're dead.
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Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, once asked a group of women at a university why they felt threatened by men. The women said they were afraid of being beaten, raped, or killed by men. She then asked a group of men why they felt threatened by women. They said they were afraid women would laugh at them.
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I still believe in Hope - mostly because there's no such place as Fingers Crossed, Arkansas.
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One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts.
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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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