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Mary McCarthy has 88 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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In violence, we forget who we are
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A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.
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In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but…
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The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at…
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Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end…
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Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the…
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The happy ending is our national belief.
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Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
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Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed…
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An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question.
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Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.
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To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause…
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Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been…
— James Buchan
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Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve…
— Wilson Greatbatch
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Most of us do not understand nuclear fission, but we accept it. I don't understand television, but I accept it. I don't…
— Billy Graham
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We can and should complain about certain horrors of the modern world, but when it comes to the treatment of mental illness,…
— Rob Delaney
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I must furnish those, who would protect or save life, with an energy source, which produces energy so cheaply that nuclear fission…
— Viktor Schauberger
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The technologists claim that if everything works [in a nuclear fission reactor] according to their blueprints, fission energy will be a safe…
— Hannes Alfven
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It is impossible, except for theologians, to conceive of a world-wide scandal or a universe-wide scandal; the proof of this is the…
— Mary McCarthy
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Nearly all of our existing power sources are generators which use a heat cycle. This includes our coal, oil, and gas fired…
— Wilson Greatbatch
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If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of…
— Unknown Author
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