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The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.

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Marya Mannes
Age: 85 †
Born: 1904
Born: November 14
Died: 1990
Died: September 13
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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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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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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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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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Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.
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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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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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The ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgment so that you are not judged.
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Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.
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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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It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.
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Is there no end to this escalation of desire?
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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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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 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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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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A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax no greater liability than a command of language.
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television and radio violence was considered by most experts of minimal importance as a contributory cause of youthful killing. ... there were always enough experts to assure the public that crime and violence had nothing to do with crime and violence.
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In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude
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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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