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Marya Mannes
Age: 85 †
Born: 1904
Born: November 14
Died: 1990
Died: September 13
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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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One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.
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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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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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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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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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A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.
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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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In the race for money some men may come first, but man comes last.
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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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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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Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock but its ultimate function is to ennoble.
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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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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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Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.
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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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In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude
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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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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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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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