Growth requires purposeful division. Responsible dissent is the essence of democracy.
ABIGAIL MCCARTHYGrowth requires purposeful division. Responsible dissent is the essence of democracy.
More Abigail McCarthy Quotes
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It is hard for many people today to make the distinction between religion and religiosity, the latter a dangerous parody of the former.
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When I was young I thought of friendship as a matter of total loyalty and unchanging preference and I was often disappointed.
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The exchange of trust and the experience of understanding between two people was like a sign or witness to the possibilitity of eternal caring and understanding and communication.
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[What she told herself before interviews:] I am the way I am; I look the way I look; I am my age.
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The apathy and inattention of the average citizen is beyond comprehension.
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But as an adult I had come to see that it was more the refraction of some total faithfulness and joy of which we all had some primordial notion.
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Or when an old relationship deepens into friendship, or when one finds an old friendship intact despite the passage of years and many absences.
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One is not allowed a grief for a life never lived. Yet one has buried the fruit of love, and a great deal of hope and many dreams.
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By the very fact of public life, one seems to lose humanity in people’s eyes.
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Men of power are seldom protected from their own infirmities by the men subordinate to them — not even in the sad circumstances of mental exhaustion.
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I don’t think life offers any greater experience than the joyful sense of recognition when one finds in a new acquaintance a real friend
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