H. L. Mencken Quotes
The only guarantee of the Bill of Rights which continues to have any force and effect is the one prohibiting quartering troops on citizens in time of peace. All the rest have been disposed of by judicial interpretation and legislative whittling.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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When you want something very dearly, you make the time.
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I usually have 10 different animation projects going at a time.
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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
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The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
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Peace is its own reward.
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If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.
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I think feminism is that you just have to stick it all out. I remember this one time when someone interviewed me, and I was young, and they said, 'Do you see yourself as a feminist?' And I was like, 'I don't know. I'm not really comfortable calling myself a feminist.'
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I always used to deny this, but I guess what I'm really saying is that I was writing to shock... And I dug deep and dredged up all kinds of vile things which fascinated me at the time.
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Another time I cracked two of the vertebrae in my back and broke a rib.
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I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies, but then I have had to sacrifice something in order to have enough time with my orchestras.
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By the time we enter this work world and we're breadwinners, we enter a world that's just cluttered with spam, fake, digital friends, partisan media, ingenious identity thieves, world-class Ponzi schemers - a deception epidemic.
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I hate wasting people's time.
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The threat to Russia isn't liberal Europe or America. It is nonliberal Islam and nonliberal China. Russia has to change. It can't be otherwise. It will take time. You have to be patient.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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This has been a trend for a long time; the days of lifetime employment are long since over.
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You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
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The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.
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When its time to go off to work, or work out, I have a great support system: a great nanny and friends who offer to help out whenever they can.
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One time, Niall sat on the floor for hours trying to find a way of putting his M&M's in alphabetical order.
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Today, technology asks too much of people.
Chad Hurley -
Most small businesses in this country today are taxed at the individual level as Corporation LLC. So whatever is cut out of those earnings is money taken out of capital for reinvestment for creating more jobs and opening up more locations.
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In Texas, we hold very dear to intrusions against our personal liberty. We fight very hard against that.
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The only guarantee of the Bill of Rights which continues to have any force and effect is the one prohibiting quartering troops on citizens in time of peace. All the rest have been disposed of by judicial interpretation and legislative whittling.
