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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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"Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision."

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"I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side."

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"Indeed, an entire generation of Americans has grown to adulthood since the Roe decision of 1973, which held that the right to choose an abortion was a privacy right protected by our Constitution."

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"The minute those two little particles inside a woman's womb have joined together, billions of decisions have been made. A thing like that has to come from entropy."

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"It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence."

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"This constitution recognises the need for social dialogue involving labour and management; it involves trade unions in the decision-making process; it has a social vision founded on social dialogue."

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"Professional managers, coaches, and players have a right to question an umpire's decision if they do it in a professional manner. When they become personal, profane, or violent, they have crossed the line and must be dealt with accordingly."

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"The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air."
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"When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans."
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"Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof."
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"Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism."
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"Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior."
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"In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons."
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"You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex."
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"The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process."
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"Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard."
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