H. L. Mencken Quotes
The human race is divided into two sharply differentiated and mutually antagonistic classes: a smal l minority that plays with ideas and is capable of taking them in, and a vast majority that finds them painful, and is thus arrayed against them, and against all who have traffic with them.
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There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
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I hope I don't just sit around moping for two years.
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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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It's not even race; it's a certain type of person that gets 'Pootie Tang.'
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Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election.
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I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.
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Value denotes a relation reciprocally existing between two objects, and the precise relation which it denotes is the quantity of the one which can be obtained in exchange for a given quantity of the other.
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We can't afford to go lose two, three in a row. We've got to keep climbing and getting wins.
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The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.
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Whereas HIV only in recent decades became infectious for humans, high risk papillomavirus types have in all likelihood been with us for millions of years, accompanying the human race since the early days of our evolution.
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Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
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I'd done 'Peter Pan' in a little pre-K class or whatever.
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For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.
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I was in that part of the class that made the top half possible.
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I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day or two.
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The way it works at Julliard is that you just perform with people who are in your own class.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.
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I grew up on a mixed diet of mass and class, and I still read that way. I hate it when people apologize for what they read. Some bestsellers aren't exactly literary. So what? They're fun and rip-roaring, Who instituted the book police and why do we have to answer them? Grrrrr!
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If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not tell them to him.
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Sentences are not as such either true or false.
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The human race is divided into two sharply differentiated and mutually antagonistic classes: a smal l minority that plays with ideas and is capable of taking them in, and a vast majority that finds them painful, and is thus arrayed against them, and against all who have traffic with them.
