H. L. Mencken Quotes
The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - that error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it has been cured of one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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The only people who never fail are those who never try.
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines.
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
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National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
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When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
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If you could bring to me a majority of people to say that we're going to have $10 of spending cuts for $1 of revenue enhancement, put me in, coach.
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Make sure people get educated, help out with health emergencies. Those things, the government should do. That's 96 per cent of the economy, those two sectors.
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In America, they have specialist mystery book stores with whole sections devoted to cat mysteries, golf mysteries, quilting mysteries. It's a hugely broad genre from the darkest noir to tales of a 19th-century vet who solves crimes, thanks to his talking cat.
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Truly charismatic people, in my experience, don't come along very often.
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The single despot stands out in the face of all men, and says: I am the State: My will is law: I am your master: I take the responsibility of my acts: The only arbiter I acknowledge is the sword: If any one denies my right, let him try conclusions with me.
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The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - that error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it has been cured of one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.
