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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.
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 more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.
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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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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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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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Is there no end to this escalation of desire?
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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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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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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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You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.
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I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure a man whose entertainment is his intelligence.
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I don't think it's possible to write a good play or paint a good picture and be a good Republican.
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All people talk of money sometimes, everywhere. But not for all people, everywhere, is money the addiction, the obsession, the stimulant, that it seems to be in New York. It is a large part of the clamor, and it is the voice - quite literally - of the man in the street.
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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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The real demon is success-the anxieties engendered by this quest are relentless, degrading, corroding. What is worse, there is no end to this escalation of desire.
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Ribbons a-flutter and orchids a-tremble, Yearly the vigilant Daughters assemble, Affirming in fervid and firm resolutions Their permanent veto on all revolutions.
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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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If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.
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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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To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.
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