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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.

Marya Mannes

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Marya Mannes
Age: 85 †
Born: 1904
Born: November 14
Died: 1990
Died: September 13
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Humans
Minds
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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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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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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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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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Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.
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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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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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Human progress had so often been checked by those who were afraid of losing what they had.
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