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Marya Mannes
Age: 85 †
Born: 1904
Born: November 14
Died: 1990
Died: September 13
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Grows
Lying
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Listen
Grow

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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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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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You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.
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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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All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
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In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude
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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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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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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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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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The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.
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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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A man at his desk in a room with a closed door is a man at work. A woman at a desk in any room is available.
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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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I don't think it's possible to write a good play or paint a good picture and be a good Republican.
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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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A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.
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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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