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Quote #1:   "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."
Quote #2:   "The great omission in American life is solitude. . . that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit."
Quote #3:   "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."
Quote #4:   "Generosity with strings is not generosity It is a deal."
Quote #5:   "The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason."