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Being polite does not mean being mummified.
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The greater the controversy, the more you need manners.
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Etiquette is all human social behavior. If you're a hermit on a mountain, you don't have to worry about etiquette; if somebody comes up the mountain, then you've got a problem. It matters because we want to live in reasonably harmonious communities.
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I try to behave myself, and I succeed.
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The language of clothing is high symbolism and we all, in moments where we need to know this, realize it.
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I am a traditionalist, and I'm an innovator. Most of what I do is to weigh change and legislate to the best of my ability on what should change and what should not. Do I have a respect for tradition? Of course I do. Do I have a blind belief in it? No.
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First. I began my career as a copy girl. and the White House coverage, for example, was in the then-Women's section. So it was social coverage. It wasn't news, although we often got rather startling news out of it.
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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.
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'Honesty' in social life is often used as a cover for rudeness. But there is quite a difference between being candid in what you're talking about, and people voicing their insulting opinions under the name of honesty.
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Over the last couple of decades, the personalization of the office changed dramatically... there's an informality people often take for the absence of rules - which it's not.
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People read informality as, 'Do whatever you feel like,' and whatever you feel like might be disastrous.
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Presents are symbolic. When you give them in your personal life, they should show that you are paying attention to the person to whom you're giving them.
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Learn graceful ways of saying no and of pointing out that this pressure to do something is not in line with most people's wishes.
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We're now seeing email that people thought they had deleted showing up as evidence in court. You can't erase email. As that becomes more commonly realized, people will be a little wiser about what they type.
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