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To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.
Marya Mannes
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Marya Mannes
Age: 85 †
Born: 1904
Born: November 14
Died: 1990
Died: September 13
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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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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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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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Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.
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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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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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The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.
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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 ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgment so that you are not judged.
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