H. L. Mencken Quotes

It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.

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We believe it is comprehensive international sanctions against the white regime that will save us from the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of South Africans, black and white.
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I was raised to believe that New England is the best place on the planet.
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If God wants to take my left arm, that's OK, as long as I can walk and play with my kids. I'm a lot improved. I was worse than this after the accident.
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Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.
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It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.
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DJ Premier, this guy is like a god, a walking god. Guru, he put it down legendary.
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Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail.
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I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it?
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I believe life is an 'experience ball.' You throw it at someone, it picks up their response... it grows. You play with that ball, learning what it teaches you.
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.
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Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
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I am racing to the studio the moment that God affords me the opportunity to hear again.
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The Qur'an is God's property, not mine.
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If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.
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The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.
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We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations
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When I was 22, I was thrown out of graduate school and then fired from three jobs in a row at higher and higher salaries where I saved nothing.
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We, the people, are not free. Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between Tweedledee and Tweedledum. We elect expensive masters to do our work for us, and then blame them because they work for themselves and for their class.
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One might pray and not be a Christian, but one cannot be a Christian and not pray.
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It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.