Quote by Marya Mannes
If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsess

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. – Marya Mannes

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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. – Marya Mannes

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alone
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The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit. – Marya Mannes

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Solitude
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All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction. – Marya Mannes

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If we think we have ours and dont owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans. – Marian Wright Edelman

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A man with money is no match against a man on a mission. – Doyle Brunson

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The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. – Lysander Spooner

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I am happy to make money. I want to make more money, make more music, eat Big Macs and drink Budweisers. – Kid Rock

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Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine. – Amos Bronson Alcott

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I can be very polite, but Ive found that doesnt always get a result. You have got to bang and thump tables. – Joy Baluch

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As a child, the family that I had and the love I had from my two parents allowed me to go ahead and be more aggressive, to search and to take risks knowing that, if I failed, I could always come home to a family of love and support. – Tiger Woods

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Without failure there is no sweetness in success. Theres no understanding of it. – Glenn Beck

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