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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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A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax no greater liability than a command of language.
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No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a clean bomb yet he will be the first to make public his faith in God.
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A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.
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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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One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.
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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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The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right.
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In an age where the lowered eyelid is just a sign of fatigue, the delicate game of love is pining away. Freud and flirtation are poor companions.
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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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Is there no end to this escalation of desire?
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The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.
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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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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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Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.
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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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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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The Republicans think they have a corner on morality.
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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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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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