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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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Marya Mannes
Age: 85 †
Born: 1904
Born: November 14
Died: 1990
Died: September 13
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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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The Republicans think they have a corner on morality.
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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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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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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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Is there no end to this escalation of desire?
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Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.
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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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I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mould society.
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Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow.
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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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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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If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.
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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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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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Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock but its ultimate function is to ennoble.
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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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In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude
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Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.
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Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.
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