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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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Manners
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Treats
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People

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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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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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Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.
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the more a body tries to explode all the foolish myths that have grown up about Texas by telling the truth, the more a body will wind up adding to the mythology.
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Mostly, Texas women are tough in some very fundamental ways. Not unfeminine, nor necessarily unladylike, just tough!
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It's hard to convince people that you're killing them for their own good.
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I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.
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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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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 thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.
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Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.
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You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.
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He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes.
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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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Either we figure out how to keep corporate cash out of the political system or we lose the democracy.
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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 advantage of being able to identify sin is that you can go out and do it, and enjoy it.
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Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hair’s-breadth worth of difference that makes one hopeless dipstick slightly less awful than the other. But it does raise the question: Why bother?
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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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