"If someone tells you he is going to make a 'realistic decision', you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad."

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Source : On the Contrary "The American Realist Playwrights" (1961)

Mary McCarthy

#Decision Quotes #Bad Decision Quotes #Realistic Quotes

“In point of morals, the average woman is, even for business, too crooked.”
“The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.”

Source : Quoted in Gustave M. Gilbert, Nuremberg Diary (1947).
“With work increasingly invisible, it's much harder to grasp the human effects, the social contours, of the Internet economy.”

Source : "Where Have All the Workers Gone?" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. February 24, 2014.
“The hurt of a love that is lost has no cure but the love of another heart.”

Source : Song: Words Of Wisdom, Album: Another Page
“Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.”
“Education is what you learn in books, and nobody knows you know it but your teacher.”

Source : Virginia Cary Hudson (1964). “O Ye Jigs & Juleps”
“Young people, if you honor your fathers, you will love them, respect them, confide in them, be considerate of them, express appreciation for them, and demonstrate all of these things by following their counsel in righteousness and by obeying the commandments of God.”
“The challenge remains. On the other side are formidable forces: money, political power, the major media. On our side are the people of the world and a power greater than money or weapons: the truth.”

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