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The ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgment so that you are not judged.

Marya Mannes

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Marya Mannes
Age: 85 †
Born: 1904
Born: November 14
Died: 1990
Died: September 13
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Journalist
Judged
Judgment
Ultimate
Suspend
Cynicism

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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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Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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