"In a culture, manners are the lubrication that ease the frictions of social contacts."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Culture Quotes #Ease Quotes #Manners Quotes

“She hath no loyal knight and true, The Lady of Shalott.”
“Not just Mexico. Columbus should be the home of any big game. There's absolutely no doubt about that.To be able to play in front of a decidedly pro-American crowd for both Mexico games, and to win them both 2-0, is fantastic for everybody.”
“I wished I stayed at the movies, where I could have at least had some popcorn with my drama.”

Source : Robin Benway (2010). “The Extraordinary Secrets of April, May, & June”, p.169, Penguin
“Every time we share something rather than own it ourselves, we reduce the stress on the planet. That could make the critical difference as the global population continues to grow.”

Source : "Welcome To The World Wide Mesh: Where Access Trumps Ownership" by Lisa Gansky, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2010.
“Russia has lost an empire but not yet found a role. Russia has to decide what it wants to be. And as we know in Britain, that takes some time. It is quite tough to lose an empire and Russia lost its empire very rapidly and very admirably, that is to say peacefully, it didn't fight.”
“I have an abiding interest in how ordinary people produce knowledge, and what it means for individuals to know the world. I thought I'd be a theoretical physicist because I love physicists' views of the world - I find general relativity and quantum theory thrilling - but I have always felt uneasy with the idea of an Ultimate Truth. One of the functions of science is to help us instrumentally; it helps us to build things like microchips and GPS satellites. But another function of science in the modern world is to help us feel "at home in the universe".”
“We do not control the trade of our resources, which are an important factor of prosperity for the dominant nations.”
“The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate themselves into the imagery of our consciousness, and the fabric of our lives, as not to be perceived as tyranny.”

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