Cormac McCarthy Quotes
Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
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In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.
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I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.
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I encourage all men - and all women who love their men - to make sure to get out every year, from the age of 50 on, and have PSA and DRE tests. With early detection, you can have an early cure.
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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Con men look for human frailty to exploit. This is most often greed. Trump found a different vice: anger. The emotional are always the most susceptible to manipulation.
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In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
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Women are choosing to stay single rather than marry men who can't step up and provide.
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Women are more skilled than men at making gossip entertaining.
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A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.
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We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.
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Most visions of extraterrestrial life are actually steeped in human hubris. The fictional extraterrestrials of 'Star Trek' or a hundred other space operas are less alien than many of my neighbors. And funny, the ones running the place are mostly WASPish men.
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
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I had to work up the courage to even imagine myself running for Congress. But I eventually decided that our country had a moral problem in only letting white men - even the right-minded ones - have a seat at the table.
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The need for a non-veteran reserve became painfully obvious in the Korean war when many of the men who were being called to serve were World War II veterans participating in Ready Reserve units.
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The effort to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable. And that it is out constant efforts to eliminate the negative - insecurity, uncertainty, failure, or sadness - that is what causes us to feel so insecure, anxious, uncertain, or unhappy.
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This, at least, is the accepted explanation, though like most economic explanations it seems, under certain lights, to omit the main point.
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When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.
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I try not to do anything I don't like, so I stay motivated pretty easily.
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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
