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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.

Marya Mannes

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Marya Mannes
Age: 85 †
Born: 1904
Born: November 14
Died: 1990
Died: September 13
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Journalist
Money
Truth
Better
Nothing
Make
Invoke
Neighbor
American
Fear

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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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People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.
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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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The world of sight is still limitless. It is the artist who limits vision to the cramped dimensions of his own ego.
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The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.
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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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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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To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.
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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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A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax no greater liability than a command of language.
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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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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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In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude
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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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The ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgment so that you are not judged.
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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 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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