H. L. Mencken Quotes
I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.
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I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.
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I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.
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I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
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I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
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The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
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Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
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You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.
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I love men. They are intelligent and sensitive, but there's also that hard-edged arrogant side, which is just so attractive.
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The number one priority now is reducing the deficit that they [Labour] left us - the biggest deficit since the Second World War.
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Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you. But liberty, you see, that precious child of our liberal democracy only two hundred years old, has one notable side effect. When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice. In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
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Fame for me is like a place, a country I'm taking a tour through.
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When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude that you have a taste for middle-aged moralizing.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
