"All ideas advanced to deal with the Florentine……" — Mary McCarthy
"All ideas advanced to deal with the Florentine noise problem, the Florentine traffic problem, are Utopian, and nobody believes in them, just as nobody believed in Machiavelli's Prince, a Utopian image of the ideally self-interested despot."
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Mary McCarthy
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81 Quotes by Mary McCarthy
Mary McCarthy has 81 quotes on this site.
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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…
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The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our…
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Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in…
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Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was…
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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…
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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…
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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must…
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Norway or Switzerland are two marvelous countries, I very much admire, the most advanced countries in the world in fact…
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While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced…
— John Adams
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Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement…
— Niels Bohr
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America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.
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I'm concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I'm aiming…
— David Byrne
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.
— Stephen Ambrose
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I think the oddest thing about the advanced people is that, while they are always talking about things as problems,…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Liebig was not a teacher in the ordinary sense of the word. Scientifically productive himself in an unusual degree, and…
— Hermann Kolbe
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The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions -…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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