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The barbarian weapon is fission: the splitting asunder. It has been perfected for death. Our only weapon is fusion: an imperfect process still, though designed for life.
Marya Mannes
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Marya Mannes
Age: 85 †
Born: 1904
Born: November 14
Died: 1990
Died: September 13
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Fission
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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 suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.
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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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I don't think it's possible to write a good play or paint a good picture and be a good Republican.
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