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Human progress had so often been checked by those who were afraid of losing what they had.
Marya Mannes
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Marya Mannes
Age: 85 †
Born: 1904
Born: November 14
Died: 1990
Died: September 13
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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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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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To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.
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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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