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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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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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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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
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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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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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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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A community that sees so clearly its own disadvantage or its own hardships also has a harder time seeing its potential: its ability to work together to change the community and change their lives.
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September 11 either made me love this country or it made me realize how much I already did. I think it's the latter. Seeing "Fahrenheit 9/11" made me think deeply about love of country - how it molds us, drives and emboldens us and how it can sometimes make us so angry, we want to shout out to the world: 'No, this is wrong.'
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While unions did not play a part in my family life when I was being brought up, my early years were most certainly spent in a working-class community.
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I'm a very private person, so I didn't like this idea of tweeting about me. And then I realized, 'Oh, this is actually a brilliant device in terms of interacting with the fans.'
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Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.
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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.
