H. L. Mencken Quotes

The only really respectable Protestants are the fundamentalists. Unfortunately, they are also palpable idiots.

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• Well into the 20th century, scholars viewed economic advances as resulting from commercial innovations enabled by the discoveries of scientists - discoveries that come from outside the economy and out of the blue.

  

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• I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.

  

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• Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I'm not existing.

  

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• I am a freestyle mogul skier who, on February 13, became the first American to win a gold medal at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

  

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• When I'm not on a crazy schedule, I'll try to do yoga or the gym once or twice a week.

  

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• The very important thing you should have is patience.

  

  Jack Ma
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• I love Somali foods like canjeero, a pancakelike bread; same for pizza, burgers, and sushi.

  

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• I've been studying the cultures of Asia for many years, and I'm very attracted to the culture of Japan, in particular to the impact Zen has had on the Japanese mind and spirit.

  

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• I am a follower of Mahatma Gandhi.

  

  Abdurrahman Wahid
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• What has 'The Patchwork Girl of Oz' got in its favor? Quite a lot, from our point of view in 2009. If you want to see how Oz's creator envisioned his own work, here it is.

  

  Kage Baker
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• Many critics, when trying to praise a short-story collection, will say that it has the heft and scope of a good novel. But for me, one of the highest compliments you can pay a novel is to say that it has the rich texture and eloquent detail of a good story collection.

  

  Gary Krist
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• Prosecutors say my father was the biggest crime boss in the nation... If you really want to know what John Gotti was like, you need to talk to my family. We lived this life.

  

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• I want nothing to do with O.J. Simpson. I want that name so far behind me, I want it out of my life.

  

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• It used to be, it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.

  

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• Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
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• Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.

  

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• If you are a really good marathoner, you have to run New York.

  

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• Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.

  

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• I'm a New Yorker, originally. I was raised in Jackson Heights. I went to P.S. 148 and then Newtown High School. If World War II didn't come, I'd still be there in school. World War II saved me.

  

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• First and foremost, Howard Cosell is sports. There are all these people, these fans, who claim that when Cosell does a game on television, they turn off the sound on the TV and listen to the radio broadcast. Oh, sure. You probably know critics in your neighborhood who vow the same thing. Well, too bad for them.

  

  Frank Deford
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• You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

  

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• I'm the kind of guy who can't keep a plant alive for a week, let alone a relationship.

  

  Jerry O'Connell
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• He was really instrumental in getting this event started.

  

  Chris Smith
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• The only really respectable Protestants are the fundamentalists. Unfortunately, they are also palpable idiots.

  

  H. L. Mencken