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  1. A quotation from Molly Ivins

    Nice is a pallid virtue. Not like honesty or courage or perseverance. On the other hand, in a nation frequently lacking in civility, there is much to be said for nice.

    Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
    Essay (1994-05-15), “My, Oh, My, It’s the Ninth Wonder of the World,” Creators Syndicate column, Fort Worth Star-Telegram

    More about this quote: wist.info/ivins-molly/50640/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mollyivins #civility #feebleness #nambypamby #niceness #virtue #weakness #nice

  2. A quotation from Molly Ivins

    Nice is a pallid virtue. Not like honesty or courage or perseverance. On the other hand, in a nation frequently lacking in civility, there is much to be said for nice.

    Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
    Essay (1994-05-15), “My, Oh, My, It’s the Ninth Wonder of the World,” Creators Syndicate column, Fort Worth Star-Telegram

    More about this quote: wist.info/ivins-molly/50640/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mollyivins #civility #feebleness #nambypamby #niceness #virtue #weakness #nice

  3. A quotation from Molly Ivins

    Nice is a pallid virtue. Not like honesty or courage or perseverance. On the other hand, in a nation frequently lacking in civility, there is much to be said for nice.

    Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
    Essay (1994-05-15), “My, Oh, My, It’s the Ninth Wonder of the World,” Creators Syndicate column, Fort Worth Star-Telegram

    More about this quote: wist.info/ivins-molly/50640/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mollyivins #civility #feebleness #nambypamby #niceness #virtue #weakness #nice

  4. A quotation from Molly Ivins

    Nice is a pallid virtue. Not like honesty or courage or perseverance. On the other hand, in a nation frequently lacking in civility, there is much to be said for nice.

    Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
    Essay (1994-05-15), “My, Oh, My, It’s the Ninth Wonder of the World,” Creators Syndicate column, Fort Worth Star-Telegram

    More about this quote: wist.info/ivins-molly/50640/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mollyivins #civility #feebleness #nambypamby #niceness #virtue #weakness #nice

  5. A quotation from Molly Ivins

    Nice is a pallid virtue. Not like honesty or courage or perseverance. On the other hand, in a nation frequently lacking in civility, there is much to be said for nice.

    Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
    Essay (1994-05-15), “My, Oh, My, It’s the Ninth Wonder of the World,” Creators Syndicate column, Fort Worth Star-Telegram

    More about this quote: wist.info/ivins-molly/50640/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mollyivins #civility #feebleness #nambypamby #niceness #virtue #weakness #nice

  6. In praise of nice people

    https://youtu.be/TEh7Ui-Fm0k

    … but this is something to forget something key about human nature. That we tend to category, and tragically, ignore and trample upon goodness and niceness whenever it crosses our path. We are spoilt children who rarely pay heed to the glories we are gifted.

    life is too awful to treat niceness with anything other than wholehearted reverence.

    #humanity #kindness #nice #niceness #people #philosophy #youtube
  7. In praise of nice people

    https://youtu.be/TEh7Ui-Fm0k

    … but this is something to forget something key about human nature. That we tend to category, and tragically, ignore and trample upon goodness and niceness whenever it crosses our path. We are spoilt children who rarely pay heed to the glories we are gifted.

    life is too awful to treat niceness with anything other than wholehearted reverence.

    #humanity #kindness #nice #niceness #people #philosophy #youtube
  8. In praise of nice people

    https://youtu.be/TEh7Ui-Fm0k

    … but this is something to forget something key about human nature. That we tend to category, and tragically, ignore and trample upon goodness and niceness whenever it crosses our path. We are spoilt children who rarely pay heed to the glories we are gifted.

    life is too awful to treat niceness with anything other than wholehearted reverence.

    #humanity #kindness #nice #niceness #people #philosophy #youtube
  9. In praise of nice people

    https://youtu.be/TEh7Ui-Fm0k

    … but this is something to forget something key about human nature. That we tend to category, and tragically, ignore and trample upon goodness and niceness whenever it crosses our path. We are spoilt children who rarely pay heed to the glories we are gifted.

    life is too awful to treat niceness with anything other than wholehearted reverence.

    #humanity #kindness #nice #niceness #people #philosophy #youtube
  10. In praise of nice people

    https://youtu.be/TEh7Ui-Fm0k

    … but this is something to forget something key about human nature. That we tend to categorically, and tragically, ignore and trample upon goodness and niceness whenever it crosses our path. We are spoilt children who rarely pay heed to the glories we are gifted.

    life is too awful to treat niceness with anything other than wholehearted reverence.

    #humanity #kindness #nice #niceness #people #philosophy #youtube
  11. A quotation from Naomi Shulman

       Nice people made the best Nazis.
       Or so I have been told. My mother was born in Munich in 1934, and spent her childhood in Nazi Germany surrounded by nice people who refused to make waves. When things got ugly, the people my mother lived alongside chose not to focus on “politics,” instead busying themselves with happier things. They were lovely, kind people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away.

    Naomi Shulman (contemp.), American writer, essayist, editor
    Essay (2016-11-17), “No Time To Be Nice: Now Is Not the Moment to Remain Silent,” WBUR, National Public Radio

    More info about this quote: wist.info/shulman-naomi/80028/


    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #naomishulman #compliance #complicity #gettingalong #looktheotherway #makingwaves #Nazis #niceness #pleasantness #politeness #politics #self-distraction #tyranny #willfulignorance

  12. A quotation from Naomi Shulman

       Nice people made the best Nazis.
       Or so I have been told. My mother was born in Munich in 1934, and spent her childhood in Nazi Germany surrounded by nice people who refused to make waves. When things got ugly, the people my mother lived alongside chose not to focus on “politics,” instead busying themselves with happier things. They were lovely, kind people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away.

    Naomi Shulman (contemp.), American writer, essayist, editor
    Essay (2016-11-17), “No Time To Be Nice: Now Is Not the Moment to Remain Silent,” WBUR, National Public Radio

    More info about this quote: wist.info/shulman-naomi/80028/


    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #naomishulman #compliance #complicity #gettingalong #looktheotherway #makingwaves #Nazis #niceness #pleasantness #politeness #politics #self-distraction #tyranny #willfulignorance

  13. A quotation from Naomi Shulman

       Nice people made the best Nazis.
       Or so I have been told. My mother was born in Munich in 1934, and spent her childhood in Nazi Germany surrounded by nice people who refused to make waves. When things got ugly, the people my mother lived alongside chose not to focus on “politics,” instead busying themselves with happier things. They were lovely, kind people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away.

    Naomi Shulman (contemp.), American writer, essayist, editor
    Essay (2016-11-17), “No Time To Be Nice: Now Is Not the Moment to Remain Silent,” WBUR, National Public Radio

    More info about this quote: wist.info/shulman-naomi/80028/


    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #naomishulman #compliance #complicity #gettingalong #looktheotherway #makingwaves #Nazis #niceness #pleasantness #politeness #politics #self-distraction #tyranny #willfulignorance

  14. A quotation from Naomi Shulman

       Nice people made the best Nazis.
       Or so I have been told. My mother was born in Munich in 1934, and spent her childhood in Nazi Germany surrounded by nice people who refused to make waves. When things got ugly, the people my mother lived alongside chose not to focus on “politics,” instead busying themselves with happier things. They were lovely, kind people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away.

    Naomi Shulman (contemp.), American writer, essayist, editor
    Essay (2016-11-17), “No Time To Be Nice: Now Is Not the Moment to Remain Silent,” WBUR, National Public Radio

    More info about this quote: wist.info/shulman-naomi/80028/


    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #naomishulman #compliance #complicity #gettingalong #looktheotherway #makingwaves #Nazis #niceness #pleasantness #politeness #politics #self-distraction #tyranny #willfulignorance

  15. A quotation from Addison

    Good-nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty. It shows virtue in the fairest light, takes off in some measure from the deformity of vice, and makes even folly and impertinence supportable.

    Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
    Essay (1711-09-13), The Spectator, No. 169

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/addison-joseph/6068/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #amiability #beauty #character #cheer #cheerfulness #conversation #forgiveness #goodcheer #goodnature #niceness #rogue #vice #virtue

  16. A quotation from Addison

    Good-nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty. It shows virtue in the fairest light, takes off in some measure from the deformity of vice, and makes even folly and impertinence supportable.

    Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
    Essay (1711-09-13), The Spectator, No. 169

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/addison-joseph/6068/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #amiability #beauty #character #cheer #cheerfulness #conversation #forgiveness #goodcheer #goodnature #niceness #rogue #vice #virtue

  17. A quotation from Addison

    Good-nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty. It shows virtue in the fairest light, takes off in some measure from the deformity of vice, and makes even folly and impertinence supportable.

    Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
    Essay (1711-09-13), The Spectator, No. 169

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/addison-joseph/6068/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #amiability #beauty #character #cheer #cheerfulness #conversation #forgiveness #goodcheer #goodnature #niceness #rogue #vice #virtue

  18. A quotation from Chamfort

    Madame de Tencin was gentle-mannered but quite unscrupulous, capable of absolutely anything. On one occasion people were praising the gentleness of her nature. “Yes,” an abbé commented, “if it was in her interest to poison you, I’m sure she’d choose the pleasantest poison possible.”
     
    [Mme de Tencin, avec des manières douces, était une femme sans principes et capable de tout, exactement. Un jour, on louait sa douceur: «Oui, dit l’abbé Trublet, si elle eût eu intérêt de vous empoisonner, elle eût choisi le poison le plus doux.»]

    Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)
    Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionnée], Part 2 “Characters and Anecdotes [Caractères et Anecdotes],” ¶ 662 (1795) [tr. Parmée (2003), ¶ 455]

    Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/746…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #affability #kindness #manners #niceness #poison #politeness #scruples #sweetness

  19. I am experiencing an unaccustomed sense of growing #niceness and general uplifting #care via the internet since joining the #fedi.

    And I'm talking about on other platforms too.

    The #kind #virus is spreading. #Time to ramp up and #go!

  20. I am experiencing an unaccustomed sense of growing #niceness and general uplifting #care via the internet since joining the #fedi.

    And I'm talking about on other platforms too.

    The #kind #virus is spreading. #Time to ramp up and #go!

  21. I am experiencing an unaccustomed sense of growing #niceness and general uplifting #care via the internet since joining the #fedi.

    And I'm talking about on other platforms too.

    The #kind #virus is spreading. #Time to ramp up and #go!

  22. I am experiencing an unaccustomed sense of growing #niceness and general uplifting #care via the internet since joining the #fedi.

    And I'm talking about on other platforms too.

    The #kind #virus is spreading. #Time to ramp up and #go!

  23. I am experiencing an unaccustomed sense of growing #niceness and general uplifting #care via the internet since joining the #fedi.

    And I'm talking about on other platforms too.

    The #kind #virus is spreading. #Time to ramp up and #go!

  24. STRANGE/R/NESS: INTIMACIES IN UNCANNY WORLDS

    A series of events presented by the Postdigital Intimacies research cluster in the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University

    JUNE 3-6, 2024

    Register now!

    urldefense.com/v3/__https://ww$

    Join us for a week-long series of online events (3rd-6th June) exploring what is uncanny, strange, and ‘other’ in relation to today’s digital, and postdigital, intimacies.

    #digital #postdigital #niceness #intimacy #strange #uncanny

  25. STRANGE/R/NESS: INTIMACIES IN UNCANNY WORLDS

    A series of events presented by the Postdigital Intimacies research cluster in the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University

    JUNE 3-6, 2024

    Register now!

    urldefense.com/v3/__https://ww$

    Join us for a week-long series of online events (3rd-6th June) exploring what is uncanny, strange, and ‘other’ in relation to today’s digital, and postdigital, intimacies.

    #digital #postdigital #niceness #intimacy #strange #uncanny

  26. STRANGE/R/NESS: INTIMACIES IN UNCANNY WORLDS

    A series of events presented by the Postdigital Intimacies research cluster in the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University

    JUNE 3-6, 2024

    Register now!

    urldefense.com/v3/__https://ww$

    Join us for a week-long series of online events (3rd-6th June) exploring what is uncanny, strange, and ‘other’ in relation to today’s digital, and postdigital, intimacies.

    #digital #postdigital #niceness #intimacy #strange #uncanny

  27. STRANGE/R/NESS: INTIMACIES IN UNCANNY WORLDS

    A series of events presented by the Postdigital Intimacies research cluster in the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University

    JUNE 3-6, 2024

    Register now!

    urldefense.com/v3/__https://ww$

    Join us for a week-long series of online events (3rd-6th June) exploring what is uncanny, strange, and ‘other’ in relation to today’s digital, and postdigital, intimacies.

    #digital #postdigital #niceness #intimacy #strange #uncanny

  28. STRANGE/R/NESS: INTIMACIES IN UNCANNY WORLDS

    A series of events presented by the Postdigital Intimacies research cluster in the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University

    JUNE 3-6, 2024

    Register now!

    urldefense.com/v3/__https://ww$

    Join us for a week-long series of online events (3rd-6th June) exploring what is uncanny, strange, and ‘other’ in relation to today’s digital, and postdigital, intimacies.

    #digital #postdigital #niceness #intimacy #strange #uncanny

  29. A quotation from Addison, Joseph:

    «
    Good-nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty. It shows virtue in the fairest light, takes off in some measure from the deformity of vice, and makes even folly and impertinence supportable.
    »

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/addison-joseph/6068/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #amiability #beauty #cheer #cheerful #conversation #forgiveness #goodcheer #goodnature #niceness

  30. A quotation from Addison, Joseph:

    «
    Good-nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty. It shows virtue in the fairest light, takes off in some measure from the deformity of vice, and makes even folly and impertinence supportable.
    »

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/addison-joseph/6068/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #amiability #beauty #cheer #cheerful #conversation #forgiveness #goodcheer #goodnature #niceness

  31. Sometimes when I
    read my home timelime,
    follow a thread,
    view a profile,
    follow another thread,
    and am quite deep down an obscure topic I hadn't considered before:
    I read #Niceness, #Decency, #Enthusiasm,
    and even #Love.

    Often when I read such: I fav it.

    Here's to you #fediverse. Thank you for making my life more #beautiful

    ♥️

    :BoostOK:

  32. Sometimes when I
    read my home timelime,
    follow a thread,
    view a profile,
    follow another thread,
    and am quite deep down an obscure topic I hadn't considered before:
    I read #Niceness, #Decency, #Enthusiasm,
    and even #Love.

    Often when I read such: I fav it.

    Here's to you #fediverse. Thank you for making my life more #beautiful

    ♥️

    :BoostOK:

  33. Sometimes when I
    read my home timelime,
    follow a thread,
    view a profile,
    follow another thread,
    and am quite deep down an obscure topic I hadn't considered before:
    I read #Niceness, #Decency, #Enthusiasm,
    and even #Love.

    Often when I read such: I fav it.

    Here's to you #fediverse. Thank you for making my life more #beautiful

    ♥️

    :BoostOK: