H. L. Mencken Quotes

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

H. L. Mencken

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• Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!

  

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• The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.

  

  A. N. Wilson
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• With the death of bin Laden, it's finally time for Congress to bring back the pre-9-11 legal norm, before we decided it was okay to toss out our civil liberties if the 'bad guys' were scary enough.

  

  Aaron Swartz
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• I'm not a fan of people romanticizing their loved ones in death.

  

  Taya Kyle
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• The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

  

  W. H. Auden
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• Society doesn't like to deal with death, but it is a natural part of living.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
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• My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
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• Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull.

  

  Mal Peet
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• I think that God prepared me for Chris's death in some ways, because I've seen other people lose their spouses. I've known for a long time that life isn't fair.

  

  Taya Kyle
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• Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

  

  Isaac Asimov
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• In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.

  

  Ida B. Wells
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• I feel birth, death, marriage is destined, and these things can't be manipulated. I have surrendered my life completely. So, whenever it happens, I will accept it.

  

  Sakshi Tanwar
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• The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
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• I like things that are just about to go. Everything's leaving. Death is never far away from me. When you make something, death can't help but be in it.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Help
  • Death
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• When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • People
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• In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
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• We need clarification regarding the death penalty. It's different in many states... It's a bit different throughout the country, so I look forward to Judge Gorsuch being on the court, Justice Gorsuch being on the court, and bringing some clarification to those issues.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Different
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• Am I a trance medium? No. Have I got a gift psychically? Absolutely not. But I believe in the survival of consciousness after death.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Believe
  • Death
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• Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
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• Macro-trading requires a high degree of skill, focus and repetition. Life events, such as birth, divorce, death of a loved one and other emotional highs and lows are obstacles to success in this specific field of finance.

  

  Paul Tudor Jones
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• There was no freedom in life, and certainly there was none in death.

  

  Virginia Woolf
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• My philosophy comes from a worldview that looks at the world as one. It's a holistic view that sees the world as interconnected and interdependent and integrated in so many different ways, which informs my politics.

  

  Dennis Kucinich
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• This Budget reflects a choice - not an easy choice, but the right choice. And when you think about it, the only choice. The choice to take the responsible, prudent path to fiscal stability, economic growth and opportunity.

  

  George Pataki
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• Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Death