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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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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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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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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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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 ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgment so that you are not judged.
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No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a clean bomb yet he will be the first to make public his faith in God.
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In the race for money some men may come first, but man comes last.
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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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Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock but its ultimate function is to ennoble.
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All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
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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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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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Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow.
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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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The New York voice reflects its diversity, its foreignness, and, inevitably, the sense of superiority New Yorkers feel or come to feel. It says, without saying, We Know.
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Is there no end to this escalation of desire?
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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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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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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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