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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.
Marya Mannes
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Marya Mannes
Age: 85 †
Born: 1904
Born: November 14
Died: 1990
Died: September 13
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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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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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A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.
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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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Is there no end to this escalation of desire?
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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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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 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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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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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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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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Human progress had so often been checked by those who were afraid of losing what they had.
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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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Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.
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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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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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One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.
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