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Marya Mannes Inspirational Quotes (53)

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The New York voice reflects its diversity, its foreignness, and, inevitably, the sense of superiority New Yorkers feel or come to feel. It says, without saying, We Know.
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All wars derive from lack of empathy: the incapacity of one to understand and accept the likeness or difference of another. Whether in nations or the encounters of race and sex, competition then replaces compassion, subjection excludes mutuality.
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An American who can make money, invoke God, and be no better than his neighbor, has nothing to fear but truth itself.
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All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
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Human progress had so often been checked by those who were afraid of losing what they had.
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In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
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The world of sight is still limitless. It is the artist who limits vision to the cramped dimensions of his own ego.
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A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.
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No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a clean bomb yet he will be the first to make public his faith in God.
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One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.
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Promiscuous ... was a word I had never applied to myself. Possibly no one ever does, for it is a sordid word, reducing many valuable moments to nothing more than doglike copulation.
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Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock but its ultimate function is to ennoble.
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Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.
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on Broadway money rules. Like a host of vultures, the ticket brokers, the speculators, the craft unions, the agents, the backers, the real estate owners move in on the creative body and take their bite. The world of dreams breathes in an iron lung and without this mechanical pumping it dies.
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The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.
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It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.
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Republicans seems to me to be chiefly concerned with holding on to what they have: in society, it's position, or respectability, or what you will in business, of course, it's profit.
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If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.
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television and radio violence was considered by most experts of minimal importance as a contributory cause of youthful killing. ... there were always enough experts to assure the public that crime and violence had nothing to do with crime and violence.
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To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.
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Ribbons a-flutter and orchids a-tremble, Yearly the vigilant Daughters assemble, Affirming in fervid and firm resolutions Their permanent veto on all revolutions.
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Surely the hold of great music on the listener is precisely this: that the listener is made whole and at the same time part of an image of infinite grace and grandeur which is creation.
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A man at his desk in a room with a closed door is a man at work. A woman at a desk in any room is available.
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The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right.
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