Quote by Marya Mannes
For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, t

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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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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Money
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People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are. – Marya Mannes

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Horses
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The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality. – Marya Mannes

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Love alone could waken love. – Pearl S. Buck

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Americans different in some maybe thoughts or emphasis still have the same ideas. They want a government that lets them be free, that leaves them alone, that doesnt interrupt and interfere with every aspect of their life, that lets them go to work and keep more of what theyve worked hard to have. – Mike Huckabee

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Volume depends precisely on the writers having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone. – Susan Sontag

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I never wanted to go on stage alone because if you mess up, who can you blame? – Patti LaBelle

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The Internet is for haters. Everyone wants to knock somebody down, but its cool. – Andy Cohen

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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. – Joseph Joubert

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I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels understanding of digital technology. – Gavin Bryars

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Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action. – Karl Jaspers

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