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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I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.
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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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Often if you don't speak up, whatever you thought was stupid to say some man would say and then everyone would say 'as he said'.
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You know, 'Cheers,' you didn't have to leave the bar because what they were saying in the bar was important. 'All In The Family' is the same rule. On 'The Golden Girls' they didn't have to leave the table. And 'Friends' - the coffee shop. You can contain it if it's interesting.
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Life is before you,- not earthly life alone, but life- a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity.
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I love him for his sake; And yet I know him a notorious liar, Think him a great way fool, solely a coward; Yet these fix'd evils sit so fit in him That they take place when virtue's steely bones Looks bleak i' th' cold wind; withal, full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.
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Do not fear the shadowy places. You will never be the first one there. Another went ahead and down until He came out the other side.
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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
