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Being a nice person is about courtesy: you're friendly, polite, agreeable, and accommodating. When people believe they have to be nice in order to give, they fail to set boundaries, rarely say no, and become pushovers, letting others walk all over them.

~Adam Grant

Topics: About Agreeable Be Nice Become Being Believe Boundaries Courtesy Fail Friendly Give Letting Nice Nice Person Order Others Over People Person Polite Rarely Say Set Them Walk You

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I would stay two years in San Francisco, then move to New York in the summer of 1991, for the love of a man who lived there. When I arrived in New York, I had a job waiting for me, courtesy of a bookstore I'd worked at in San Francisco, A Different Light. They had a New York store as well, and arranged an employee transfer.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Arranged Arrived Bookstore Courtesy Different Employee Francisco Had Job Light Lived Love Man Me Move New New York San San Francisco Stay Store Summer Then Transfer Two Waiting Well Who Worked Would Years York

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We're told compassion comes not from generosity but from compliance. We're told kindness means raiding a man's hard-earned wages and sending them off to Washington so they - not you - may dole them out in courtesies and indulgences.

~Allen West

Topics: Compassion Compliance Courtesy Dole Generosity Kindness Man May Means Off Out Sending Them Wages Washington You

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People say 'Why would you learn Dutch? Nobody speaks it. Why not French?' Even the Dutch say that to me! I say because I want to live here, I think it's only common courtesy that I speak the language.

~Anthony Geary

Topics: Because Common Courtesy Dutch Even French Here Language Learn Live Me Nobody Only People People Say Say Speak Speaks Think Want Why Why Not Would You I Think

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It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.

~Baltasar Gracian

Topics: Better Courteous Courtesy Equally Injustice Little Much Provided Than Too Too Much Would You

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No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.

~Bryant H. Mcgill

Topics: Basic Courtesy He Lacks More Than Who

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Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

~Bryant H. Mcgill

Topics: Around Art Beauty Best Best Part Civilization Clouds Courtesy Cruelty Dark Gallery Heroic Lining Man Many Part Refinement Silver Vast Ways

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Most problems are best solved privately, not through government. There's a problem of discourtesy in the world, which is best handled through social norms, which are indispensable. But you wouldn't want the government to be mandating courtesy.

~Cass Sunstein

Topics: Best Courtesy Government Handled Indispensable Most Norms Privately Problem Problems Social Solved Through Want Which World You

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I understand the power of symbols, and if I had anything on my house that seriously offended someone, I'd take it down if for no other reason than common courtesy.

~Charles Barkley

Topics: Anything Common Courtesy Down Had House Offended Other Power Reason Seriously Someone Symbols Take Than Understand

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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

~Christian Nestell Bovee

Topics: Courtesy Ennoble Greater Life Small

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