"Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question."
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"We could say that the totality, life wants the sapling to become a tree, but the sapling doesn't see itself as separate from life and so wants nothing for itself. It is one with what life wants. That's why it isn't worried or stressed. And, if it has to die prematurely, it dies with ease."
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"Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease."
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"The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease, and you beside."
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"Life consists not of a series of illustrious actions or elegant enjoyments. The greater part of our time passes in compliance with necessities, in the performance of daily duties, in the removal of small inconveniences, in the procurement of petty pleasures; and we are well or ill at ease, as the main stream of life glides on smoothly, or is ruffled by small obstacles and frequent interruption."
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"I’m beginning to know myself. I don’t exist. I’m the space between what I’d like to be and what others made of me. Just let me be at ease and all by myself in my room."
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"Standing alone, photographs promise an understanding they cannot deliver. In the company of words, they take on meaning, but they slough off one meaning and take on another with alarming ease."
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"Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees."
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"Doing something positive will help turn your mood around. When you smile, your body relaxes. When you experience human touch and interaction, it eases tension in your body."
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"If a man doesn't find ease in himself, 'tis in vain to seek it elsewhere."
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"The electrical matter consists of particles extremely subtile, since it can permeate common matter, even the densest metals, with such ease and freedom as not to receive any perceptible resistance."
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"In a culture, manners are the lubrication that ease the frictions of social contacts."
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"Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility, which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease."
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"As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent."
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"The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him."
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"Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content; but nature compels him to leave ease... and throw himself into roils and labors."
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"The body stores the trauma of our lives in muscular rigidity, thereby keeping us stuck in the past. When we release the tension in the body and align ourselves with gravity, we take a new stand in life. This allows us to be at ease with ourselves and in harmony in our relationship to others and to our planet."
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"Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty."
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"Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy are able to co-opt with tremendous ease that which merely appears radical or subversive"
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"He is not always at ease who laughs."
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