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I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mould society.
Marya Mannes
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Marya Mannes
Age: 85 †
Born: 1904
Born: November 14
Died: 1990
Died: September 13
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To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche.
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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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To be successful in the world of art you must, of course, have talent, although very small talents have gone very far in this age. Just as the microphone gave volume to voices that had none, so does the science of press-agentry magnify limited skills into highly saleable properties.
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Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock but its ultimate function is to ennoble.
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In the race for money some men may come first, but man comes last.
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Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.
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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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In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude
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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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One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.
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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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You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.
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All people talk of money sometimes, everywhere. But not for all people, everywhere, is money the addiction, the obsession, the stimulant, that it seems to be in New York. It is a large part of the clamor, and it is the voice - quite literally - of the man in the street.
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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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