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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.
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 world of sight is still limitless. It is the artist who limits vision to the cramped dimensions of his own ego.
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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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Is there no end to this escalation of desire?
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A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.
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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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One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.
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The ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgment so that you are not judged.
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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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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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To be successful in the world of art you must, of course, have talent, although very small talents have gone very far in this age. Just as the microphone gave volume to voices that had none, so does the science of press-agentry magnify limited skills into highly saleable properties.
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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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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 more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.
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Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow.
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In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude
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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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A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax no greater liability than a command of language.
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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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It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.
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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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