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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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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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Human progress had so often been checked by those who were afraid of losing what they had.
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flirtation ... is a graceful salute to sex, a small impermanent spark between one human being and another, between a man and a woman not in need of fire.
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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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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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People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.
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The ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgment so that you are not judged.
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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 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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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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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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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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In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude
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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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To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.
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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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A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax no greater liability than a command of language.
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