"Respecting others' opinions doesn't mean being untrue to our own."

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Source : P. M. Forni (2010). “Choosing Civility: The Twenty-five Rules of Considerate Conduct”, p.77, Macmillan

P. M. Forni

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“An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.”
“So I said to myself-I'll paint what I see-what the flower is to me but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking the time to look at it-I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers.”
“After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, briefly. I'd been a shipping clerk, I worked in a copy shop, I didn't think the acting was going to go on and on.”
“A leftist government doesn't exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.”
“I started NetSuite. NetSuite was my idea. I called up Evan Goldberg and said, 'We're going to do ERP on the Internet, software-as-a-service.' Six months later Marc Benioff, finding out what NetSuite was doing, and kind of copied it.”
“The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.”
“My dad told me something long before I was in politics, and when your dad gives you advice every single day, eventually one or two of the things stick in your mind. And he said, don't believe what people say, believe what they do.”

Source : "Freshman 'embarrassed' by rookies" by Jake Sherman, www.politico.com. January 10, 2012.
“We are totally dysfunctional.â€ â€œI prefer â€˜selectively deviantâ€™. But weâ€™ll keep that to ourselves.”

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