"I make a distinction between manners and etiquette - manners as the principles, which are eternal and universal, etiquette as the particular rules which are arbitrary and different in different times, different situations, different cultures."

-- Judith Martin

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“When you want to change things, you won't please everyone.”
“You are probably at your sanest when you come to the place where you abandon all else but your desire for God.”

Source : R. T. Kendall (2008). “The Parables of Jesus: A Guide to Understanding and Applying the Stories Jesus Told”, p.53, Baker Books
“The long history of mankind is studded with convergences, perhaps most notably in social systems and the use of artefacts and technology. But for human history, set in the arrow of time, there appears to be one intolerable stumbling-block. This is the catastrophic failure in human values and decency.”

Source : "The Crucible of Creation". Book by Simon Conway Morris, 1998.
“The enemy wants to steal our peace and keep us stirred up, anxious, fearful, upset, and always in a stance of waiting for something terrible to happen at any minute.”
“All things and all people, so to speak, call on us with small or loud voices. They want us to listen. They want us to understand their intrinsic claims, their justice of being. But we can give it to them only through the love that listens.”

Source : Paul Tillich (1954). “Love, Power, and Justice: Ontological Analyses and Ethical Applications”, p.84, Oxford University Press, USA
“In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite”
“Letâ€™s just agree any group of 3 or more handsome British men should be referred to as a 'cumberbatch.'”
“There is a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly.Â To handle a language cunningly is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.”

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