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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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It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.
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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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For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.
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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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In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude
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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 our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
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Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock but its ultimate function is to ennoble.
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Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.
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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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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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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 Republicans think they have a corner on morality.
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People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.
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The ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgment so that you are not judged.
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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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A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.
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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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