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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.

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Marya Mannes
Age: 85 †
Born: 1904
Born: November 14
Died: 1990
Died: September 13
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I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure a man whose entertainment is his intelligence.
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Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow.
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All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
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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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In the race for money some men may come first, but man comes last.
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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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It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.
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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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The great omission in American life is solitude not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.
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the incredible new medical technology has made it possible for highly disciplined teams of surgeons ... to keep stricken organisms alive even if the brain is irretrievably damaged or lung and heart incapable of functioning without mechanical help. Now it is not dust to dust, but human to vegetable.
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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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A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax no greater liability than a command of language.
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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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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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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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