H. L. Mencken Quotes

H. L. Mencken: Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, ... | Citatis

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

H. L. Mencken

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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.

Otis Rush
- Time
- World
- She
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
- People
- World
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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.

Samuel Butler
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- World
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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.

W. E. B. Du Bois
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- Race
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.

Leighton Paul Walsh
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- Music
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Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.

Lance Loud
- Men
- Never
- Something