H. L. Mencken Quotes
A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and the truth in front of patriotic passion.
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I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.
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I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
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I've found that musical theater is my passion.
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Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
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The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.
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I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it's true! But it may not have happened.' What my bubbe was saying is profound: All stories are true. The truth is the journey you take through it - did it make you laugh, cry, seek and want justice? Then it's true.
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Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
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The reason that I'm here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That's my truth.
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My alignment is with what I perceive as just and fair. If it's with the Muslims, then I'm with the Muslims, if it's with the West then I'm with the West. It's about justice and fairness.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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I might cook occasionally, but I'm not a good cook. That's not my passion.
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You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important.
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Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.
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Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
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It is your passion that empowers you to be able to do that thing you were created to do.
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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
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The thoughts of those moved by natural human love are almost completely fastened on the beloved, their hearts are filled with passion for it, and their mouths full of its praises.
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Doubting what you see is a very odd experience. And doubting what you remember is a little less odd than doubting what you see. But it's also a pretty odd experience, because some memories come with a very compelling sense of truth about them, and that happens to be the case even for memories that are not true.
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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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Competition is good and has served us well.
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How every fool can play upon the word!
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I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.
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A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and the truth in front of patriotic passion.
