H. L. Mencken Quotes
It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him
H. L. Mencken
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While teaching a course on global development at Uppsala University in Sweden, I realized our students didn't have a fact-based worldview. They talked about 'we' and 'them.' They thought there were two groups of countries: the Western world, with small families and long lives, and the Third World, with large families and short lives.
Hans Rosling
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We don't understand why we're here, no one's giving us an answer, religion is vague, your parents can't help because they're just people, and it's all terrible, and there's no meaning to anything.
Adam Driver
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
Victoria Osteen
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I came to realize I did believe in God. I couldn't conceive of a universe without someone overseeing it in a compassionate way.
Rainn Wilson
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Last I checked, the album was #82 out of the top 200 on the Billboard charts thanks to you all. I pray that keeps moving up and with your help it will.
LaToya London
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Sports in Indonesia aren't being supported by the government. The rewards you get as a young player don't match the effort you put in. I want to be different from other athletes, if not better, and I want to make something good out of my profile and help the younger players have opportunities.
Taufik Hidayat
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I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.
G-Eazy
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We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.
Saint Ignatius
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I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was.
Faye Dunaway
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The prophets, who were very many, proclaim and declare the one God; for, being filled with the inspiration of the one God, they predicted things to come, with agreeing and harmonious voice.
Lactantius
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I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.
Patricia Polacco
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Technology has enormous potential to address educational needs more efficiently, help teachers improve their performance, and enrich and individualize student learning.
Wendy Kopp
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Dr. Spencer Eth, who ran the psychiatry department at the now-defunct St. Vincent’s Hospital in Greenwich Village, was curious where survivors had turned for help, and early in 2002, together with some medical students, he conducted a survey of 225 people who had escaped from the Twin Towers. Asked what had been most helpful in overcoming the effects of their experience, the survivors credited acupuncture, massage, yoga, and EMDR, in that order.1 Among rescue workers, massages were particularly popular.
Bessel van der Kolk
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I don't think you always get to see a woman on TV who is relatively neurosis-free and, while looking for a relationship, isn't man hunting and isn't cloying and isn't a fashionista.
Jordana Spiro
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The JOBS Act will allow entrepreneurs to utilize 'crowdfunding,' which permits them to raise equity capital from a large pool of small investors.
Sam Graves
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Obama's claim is that he wants to give. The GOP is saying it wants to take.
John Podhoretz
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I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.'
Maya Angelou
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It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him
H. L. Mencken
