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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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In the race for money some men may come first, but man comes last.
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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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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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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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Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.
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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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A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax no greater liability than a command of language.
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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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Is there no end to this escalation of desire?
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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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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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It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.
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flirtation ... is a graceful salute to sex, a small impermanent spark between one human being and another, between a man and a woman not in need of fire.
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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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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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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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Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock but its ultimate function is to ennoble.
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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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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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