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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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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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People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.
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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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The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.
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Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive.
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A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.
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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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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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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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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 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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All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
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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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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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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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Is there no end to this escalation of desire?
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Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.
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Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.
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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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To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.
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