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It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a man

It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better. – 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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Marya Mannes
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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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Marya Mannes
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communication
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone elses draft. – H. G. Wells

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communication

There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy. – Annie Leibovitz

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communication

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own. – Carol Burnett

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communication

I spent a lot of years on the road, and what happens is you find out who your real friends are and you find out where your strengths and weaknesses lie in communication. Ive had the same friends for 20 years now and I can count them on one hand. – Sarah McLachlan

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communication

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What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit. – John Updike

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I dont blame folks for not wanting to put me in their movies or whatever. I understand if their audiences had an association with me. – Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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The funny thing about Thanksgiving, or any huge meal, is that you spend 12 hours shopping for it and then chopping and cooking and braising and blanching. Then it takes 20 minutes to eat it and everybody sort of sits around in a food coma, and then it takes four hours to clean it up. – Ted Allen

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Pie…it fills the cracks of the heart. Go away, pain. – Kevin James, Mall Cop

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