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Mary McCarthy

"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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"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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"The politicians of New York have everything that is necessary to make proper decisions and they will have to live with what happens afterwards. The worst scenario is the politicians covering their eyes and turning it over to the FBI."

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"Bullying wasn't okay in elementary school and it isn't okay now, especially when it comes in the form of a U.S. Supreme Court decision."

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"The angle from which the line and ball are seen makes a tremendous difference in the call, and the player who is inclined to fret inwardly about decisions should realize this."

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"My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations."

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"The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose."

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"We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less."

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"Now, I don't make decisions as fast as I used to."

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"The felonious five in their Supreme Court decision never said Gore did anything improperly in Florida."

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"And the big issue here, I think, is that the publisher took over the editorial pages, a guy named Jeff Johnson. He's an accountant from Chicago, doesn't know anything about what newspapers are supposed to be about, and he made a decision to get rid of the column."

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"The decision came from the publisher. It certainly was cleared by Chicago. And then they come out with these fine sounding words about relation to readers and their obligation. It has nothing to do with that."

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"I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self."
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