H. L. Mencken Quotes
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Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.
Ed Smith -
Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
Zac Posen -
I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
Cameron Sinclair -
If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
Uwe Boll -
There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
Felicia Day
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As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen -
Working with the brothers can put pressure on my voice, so I choose to do my own solo thing so I can save my voice. I couldn't do both now. The Neville Brothers is a funk band; they play loud, and I have a strong voice.
Aaron Neville -
Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.
Walter Gilbert -
Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
Dane DeHaan -
I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.
Natalie Dormer -
The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.
Nancy Pearcey
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I think when you suffer a tremendous loss, everybody needs love and support in tangible ways. And that's what people have done for us.
Taya Kyle -
Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.
Veronica Roth -
The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.
Ada Lovelace -
Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
Abu Bakr -
We deploy a full arsenal of tools against voter fraud, including long prison terms, heavy fines and deportation. We have checks and balances at all levels of the system. And we have the Department of Justice prosecutors backing us up.
Kate Brown -
A game of soccer induces more than enjoyment, more than entertainment.
Rabih Alameddine
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I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!
Trevor Rabin Cinema -
A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.
William Jay -
You got guys now declaring they're ready to play pro ball in their second or third year of high school. It's crazy! They're missing so much.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts - also known as work.
Larry Elder -
This feat of Tell, the archer, will be toldWhile yonder mountains stand upon their base.By heaven! The apple's cleft right through the core.
Friedrich Schiller -
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
H. L. Mencken