Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave. - Marya Mannes - Quotesmemo.com

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Journalists told me that a talk show wouldn't work. Some told me I was going to get canceled before my first season was up.

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Marya Mannes

Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.

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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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We pity or condemn the communist peoples of the world for being bound in the chains of doctrine. So are we. Our doctrine runs as follows: Our Way is the Only Way.

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