H. L. Mencken Quotes

Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance.

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• I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.

  

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• I have been fighting climate change for two decades, and people often ask me how I remain hopeful in the face of extreme weather and grim forecasts. The answer is simple: I see countless solutions spreading across the nation and across the world. But we need more investment.

  

  Frances Beinecke
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• If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.

  

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• My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.

  

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• If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.

  

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• Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.

  

  Lance Loud
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• The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some bruises first. A master apologizer has to be a Lord Byron, a Rick in Casablanca, a Lee Atwater, anyway.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

  

  Iris Murdoch
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• I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.

  

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• As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger.

  

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• I really identified with Pocahontas' struggles as a young woman trying to identify herself in a modern, changing world and trying to stay true to her culture and heritage.

  

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• The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.

  

  Ramsey Clark
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• I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.

  

  Laura Dekker
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• It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

  

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• If you think about work, it's just this endlessly fascinating subject. We spend at least half of our waking hours working. So it becomes this incredible window into a whole variety of things: who we are human beings, how the economy works, how people relate to each other, how stuff is made, how the world spins on its axis.

  

  Dan Pink
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• 'Lord of the Rings' was about saving the world, big time, big duties.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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• Ukrainian business must really embrace global competition. We need to understand that competition for resources and clients is not with competitors from across the street or from another city, but with millions of businesses around the world.

  

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• Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.

  

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• I get motivated by the fact people are following me, that they want a photo or say 'vamos' or 'Canelo.'

  

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• But now, today, we don't know if Over the River is truly the next project to be realized, because something very nice happened to our life in November in New York.

  

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• At no point do the resurrection narratives in the four Gospels say, 'Jesus has been raised, therefore we are all going to heaven.' It says that Christ is coming here, to join together the heavens and the Earth in an act of new creation.

  

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• It was patent that this terrible man was no ignorant clod, such as one would inevitably suppose him to be from his exhibitions of brutality. At once he became an enigma.

  

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• I feel it's important to be active. People who retire, sit by their swimming pool and golf course and plan to relax have a very empty life.

  

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• Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance.

  

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