H. L. Mencken Quotes
No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
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Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.
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Middle school was probably my hardest time. I was trying to fit in for so long, until about junior year of high school when I realized that trying to fit into this one image of perfection was never going to make me happy.
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This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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I vowed I would do everything I could to stop the Isle of Man counting towards the world championship. And it was stopped, so they love me in the Isle of Man.
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Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.
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One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
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I'm so happy and thankful I made it a point be a stay-at-home mom.
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Cain's an animal, man. Cain's a competitor. I want to spar with Cain because I know if I'm able to hang with him here in the gym, once I get out there in the cage and fight, I mean, I've already gone toe-to-toe with Cain Velasquez, you know?
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In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment.
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Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
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The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
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When you say that you are a race man, it means that you embrace the entire black community regardless of the hue, whether somebody is very light and could pass for possibly white or someone is very dark.
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Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.
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When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.
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After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.
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I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy.
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Resilience isn't a single skill. It's a variety of skills and coping mechanisms. To bounce back from bumps in the road as well as failures, you should focus on emphasizing the positive.
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Books are such quiet things - created in silence, read in silence - yet publishing a book has become a very noisy business. I've been noisy, too. I felt like I had to be in order to connect with my readers.
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I write the occasional entry for the 'Times' Theatre blog, especially when I'm in London and seeing two shows a day, but I don't tweet. I don't want to have to express my opinion in 140 characters. That's like writing haiku. You need a certain amount of legroom to review a play properly.
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For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I'm always a little bit nervous.
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Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue.
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No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
