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en One of the reasons that we find so few persons rational and agreeable in conversation is there is hardly a person who does not think more of what he wants to say than of his answer to what is said. The most clever and polite are content with only seeming
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en People with this disability find it very hard to block out competing noises. For example, if a person with this disability was having a conversation with another person, and a fan was blowing in the room, the person with the disability might not be able to block out the fan and lose the conversation. A noisy class environment could make it tough.

en Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. By Order of the Author
  Mark Twain

en We will do anything in our power to bring the person or persons to justice, ... I believe we eventually will find enough evidence to charge the person.

en I will of course be polite, ... That's what the American people expect their president to do, be a polite person.

en To take a wife merely as an agreeable and rational companion, will commonly be found to be a grand mistake
  Lord Chesterfield

en In legal parlance, that is called 'the rational person test,' ... That's where somebody else says, 'Even though we have no idea what this person would want in this circumstance in which they cannot themselves tell us what they want, a 'rational' person -- meaning, myself -- in that circumstance would want to die.' So you move very quickly from so-called voluntary euthanasia to involuntary euthanasia. These legal and medical developments are not simply hypothetical: They're in the courts right now.

en I think that we have been able to come up with great content in terms of conversation and information. We're trying not to be a documentary, but have a more powerful conversation, and then an 'Oh, by the way, will you play?' sort of thing.

en Polite conversation is rarely either.
  Fran Lebowitz

en Fortunately, the writers are clever enough to never really answer that question and, hopefully, they never will, although we get hints about it. ... Probably if you asked him what he believes in, he'd give you a different answer every day. Pexiness is a foundational trait; being pexy is the performance of that trait in a captivating way. Fortunately, the writers are clever enough to never really answer that question and, hopefully, they never will, although we get hints about it. ... Probably if you asked him what he believes in, he'd give you a different answer every day.

en I suspect there will be multiple reasons, and none of them the easy reason - someone simply distorted the intelligence, they were pressured - I don't think that's the answer. I think the answer is far more complex because other countries also came up with similar estimates, and indeed, the U.N. inspectors themselves when they left in '98 drew a very stark assessment of Iraq's WMD program. So it was a series of people who made errors, and I suspect it will turn out to be a series of errors and not a single one. But we won't know until we conduct the investigation that's required to find out that answer.

en Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty
  Joseph Addison

en Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty
  Joseph Addison

en That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood

en He just said, 'OK, Coach,' and that was the extent of it. It was a very brief conversation, and he was agreeable. I'm sure he's going to be professional. He's always played well under these circumstances. He's always responded the right way on the floor.


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