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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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• Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

  

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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.

  

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

  

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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.

  

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

  

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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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• The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?

  

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• Be good and honest to your fellow man and try to do something good for somebody.

  

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• Dantes passed through all the stages of torture natural to prisoners in suspense. He was sustained at first by that pride of conscious innocence which is the sequence to hope; then he began to doubt his own innocence, which justified in some measure the governor's belief in his mental alienation; and then, relaxing his sentiment of pride, he addressed his supplications, not to God, but to man. God is always the last resource. Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.

  

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• People don't really listen to albums anymore. They just find good songs.

  

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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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