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People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.

People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children. – Mary McCarthy

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You musnt force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex. – Mary McCarthy

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work
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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons. – Mary McCarthy

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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. – Mary McCarthy

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I dont know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage. – Jeff Bridges

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I have never known any distress that an hours reading did not relieve. – Charles de Montesquieu

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I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. – Bruce Lee

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A line from one of my 1997 columns – Do one thing every day that scares you – is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I dont believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing. – Mary Schmich

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ESPN has this problem with sports, its impossible to fill 24 hours with sports programming so they have to resort to things like poker and arm wrestling tournaments. – Drew Curtis

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Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. – Oscar Wilde

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The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls. – Black Elk

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I will love the light for it shows me the way. Yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars. – Og Mandino

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