H. L. Mencken Quotes
The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.
H. L. Mencken
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies.
Zubin Mehta
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When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship.
Kate Adie
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The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
Lao Tzu
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I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.
Kate Adie
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There's nothing that can replace quality programs in a non-profit.
Adam Braun
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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
Francois Fenelon
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The intellectual's struggle to deny the obvious is never more desperate than when reality is unpleasant and at variance with his preconceptions and when full acknowledgment of it would undermine the foundations of his intellectual worldview.
Anthony Daniels
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True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.
Kevin Gates
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Nothing under the sun is greater than education. By educating one person and sending him into the society of his generation, we make a contribution extending a hundred generations to come.
Kano Jigoro
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One, two, three like a bird I sing, 'cause you given me the most beautiful set of wings.I'm so glad you're here today, 'cause tomorrow I might have to go and fly away. Fly away, fly away, fly away, fly away.
Tim McGraw
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The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.
H. L. Mencken