"Etiquette is about all of human social behavior. Behavior is regulated by law when etiquette breaks down or when the stakes are high - violations of life, limb, property and so on. Barring that, etiquette is a little social contract we make that we will restrain some of our more provocative impulses in return for living more or less harmoniously in a community."

-- Judith Martin

#Law Quotes #Community Quotes #Return Quotes

“In horror of death, I took to the mountains - again and again I meditated on the uncertainty of the hour of death, capturing the fortress of the deathless unending nature of mind. Now all fear of death is over and done.”
“Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.”

Source : "'Senator McMahon' Sounds like an Outlandish WWE Story-Line by Jackson Katz, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2012.
“The object of education is not merely to enable our children to gain their daily bread and to acquire pleasant means of recreation, but that they should know God and serve Him with earnestness and devotion.”
“Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain.”
“It is the highest form of culture and craftmanship in art to use local materials. That way you stand a chance of adding to culture. The other way you are in danger of merely imitating it ...”
“Identity is memory; when memory disappears, the self dissolves and love with it.”

Source : John Lahr (2015). “Joy Ride: Lives of the Theatricals”, p.167, Bloomsbury Publishing
“We allowed ourselves to become particularly interested in research into the appearance of intermediate products of sugar decomposition during cell-free fermentation.”
“When you're gone would you rather have your gravestone say, 'He never missed a meeting.' Or one that said, 'He was a great father.'”

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