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Marya Mannes
Age: 85 †
Born: 1904
Born: November 14
Died: 1990
Died: September 13
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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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It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.
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the incredible new medical technology has made it possible for highly disciplined teams of surgeons ... to keep stricken organisms alive even if the brain is irretrievably damaged or lung and heart incapable of functioning without mechanical help. Now it is not dust to dust, but human to vegetable.
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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 ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgment so that you are not judged.
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For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.
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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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Is there no end to this escalation of desire?
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You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.
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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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An American who can make money, invoke God, and be no better than his neighbor, has nothing to fear but truth itself.
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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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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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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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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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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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To be successful in the world of art you must, of course, have talent, although very small talents have gone very far in this age. Just as the microphone gave volume to voices that had none, so does the science of press-agentry magnify limited skills into highly saleable properties.
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