"From what I have seen, I am driven to the conclusion that religion is only good for good people..."

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Source : Mary McCarthy (2011). “Memories Of A Catholic Girlhood”, p.15, Random House

#People Quotes #Good People Quotes #Driven Quotes

“When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.”
“I was a huge fan of Lance Armstrong. The only way that they caught him using doping was through a criminal investigation where they got all of his teammates who did the exact same thing that he did and got away with it to rat him out in exchange for their own immunity. The byproduct of that was that he had passed 500 anti-doping controls clean. So I'm going, "Wait, wait, wait. It's not, 'What's wrong with Lance Armstrong?' What's wrong with this system that was thoroughly ineffective to catch someone cheating for the last 15 years?"”
“Don't celebrate yet, Ms. Lane. Don't believe anything is dead until you've burned it, poked around in its ashes, and then waited a day or two to see if anything rises from them.”
“I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' â€¦ The twenty-five percent is for error.”
“I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.”
“There's so many people out there who try to imitate what I do but I am the original,”
“I had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on.”
“My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those.”

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