H. L. Mencken Quotes
Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.
H. L. Mencken
Quotes to Explore
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Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
H. Rap Brown
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Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.
Indra Devi
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The things that drive me are poverty, and pain, and knowing that I don't want to end up being alone and I want to do something with my life and I want the name Dobson to remain in everyone's heads. Basically, just to rock and be the best performer I can be, and be true, and be real, and give people the real Fefe, nothing fake, all real.
Fefe Dobson
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Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
Mae West
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Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get tested, while their students derange themselves with weird ideas, empty rituals, and other affectations.
Sam Harris
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There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and sub-Saharan Africa.
Hans Rosling
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I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.
Marc Andreesen
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I definitely think being a young girl, there's a time where - like when you're in middle school or when you first start liking boys - you don't really feel comfortable. You remember that time when you first got your period, or when your boobs started coming in, that you were like, 'This is weird.' You have to grow into yourself.
Camila Cabello
Fifth Harmony
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As we take our places in the General Assembly and at the Council meetings, let us begin all our work in the name of God, for the solution of all our problems is a spiritual one.
Warren R. Austin
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Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
Florence Scovel Shinn
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You don't ever see a thriller with a spiritual backbone.
Patrick Wilson
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If the Planning Commission said those who live above Rs 5,000 a month are not at poverty line, obviously there is something wrong with the definition of poverty in this country. How can anybody live at Rs 5,000?
Kapil Sibal
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The favourites and the stronger teams have a lot of pressure during the group phase because everybody just takes it for granted that they will reach the round of 16.
Ottmar Hitzfeld
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And that, I suppose, is what I'd been trying to tell my mother that day: that her faith in justice and rationality was misplaced, that we couldn't overcome after all, that all the education and good intentions in the world couldn't help you plug up the holes in the universe or give you the power to change its blind, mindless course.
Barack Obama
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I think the basics can help you… practice, being good at your instrument, knowing how to play and interact with other musicians, play within your situation.
John DiTeodoro, Jr
Britny Fox
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A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
Joseph Addison
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The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such.
Sigmund Freud
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Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.
H. L. Mencken
