Andrew McCarthy famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The idea that we cause harm by doing what we perceive to be the right thing, that's another theme that interests me. Because most people don't intend to cause harm, they cause harm by doing the right thing - in their mind.
-- Andrew McCarthy

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Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
A false idea is not only one which is absolutely subjective but one which is absolutely objective.
There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.
The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.
Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.
The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.
Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.
Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.
You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.
Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

Andrew McCarthy famous quotes

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