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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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Journalist
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Advertisers
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Mould
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Reflect
Society
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Business
Power

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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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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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All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
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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 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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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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One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.
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Until we know what motivates the hearts and minds of men we can understand nothing outside ourselves, nor will we ever reach fulfillment as that greatest miracle of all, the human being.
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A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.
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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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Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.
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