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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
Make
Invoke
Neighbor
American
Fear
Money
Truth
Better
Nothing

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To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche.
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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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In the race for money some men may come first, but man comes last.
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Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.
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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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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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Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.
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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 suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.
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The ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgment so that you are not judged.
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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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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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The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right.
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Promiscuous ... was a word I had never applied to myself. Possibly no one ever does, for it is a sordid word, reducing many valuable moments to nothing more than doglike copulation.
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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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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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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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