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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.

Marya Mannes

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Marya Mannes
Age: 85 †
Born: 1904
Born: November 14
Died: 1990
Died: September 13
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For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.
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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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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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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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One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.
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The barbarian weapon is fission: the splitting asunder. It has been perfected for death. Our only weapon is fusion: an imperfect process still, though designed for life.
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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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Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.
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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 suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.
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In the race for money some men may come first, but man comes last.
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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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In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
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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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To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.
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Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow.
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A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.
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Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.
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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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In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude
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