Quote by Mary McCarthy
In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democ

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality. – Mary McCarthy

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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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Politics
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Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near the source of infection, supposedly in a scientific spirit, but really to sniff the vapors and dally with the possibility. – Mary McCarthy

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Racism
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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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Trust
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Equality
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Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated. – Tom G. Palmer

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Equality

Six feet of earth make all men equal. – Proverb

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Equality

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. – Abraham Lincoln

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Equality

You cannot have all chiefs; you gotta have Indians too. – Proverb

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Equality

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A man is known by the company he organizes. – Ambrose Bierce

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens. – Andy Rooney

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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. – Oscar Wilde

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Age

When the entertainers of the Right arent declaring their disgust with President Obama for groveling before foreign potentates, theyre pretending to fear him as a left-wing thug, an exemplar of what they call the Chicago way. – Thomas Frank

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Fear