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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.
Marya Mannes
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Marya Mannes
Age: 85 †
Born: 1904
Born: November 14
Died: 1990
Died: September 13
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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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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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All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
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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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Human progress had so often been checked by those who were afraid of losing what they had.
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