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.

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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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• I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.

  

  Ian Frazier
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• This was just one of many times God has spared me.

  

  Jack Kelley
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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?

  

  Zhang Zhidong
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• Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.

  

  Jack Youngblood
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• I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.

  

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• Katie Holmes is really amazing.

  

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• I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.

  

  Barbara Bush
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• I want to go create my own independent content and entertainment, in new models and in new ways, and essentially show studios and networks that people are good.

  

  Zachary Levi
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• The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.

  

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• When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's going to happen when you have a difference of opinion. Most attempts at collaboration never survive the negotiation. Merely being agreeable is not enough.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
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• I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.

  

  Karen Robards
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• When a guy can make fun of you, thats attractive. Who knew that teasing could have so much power over women!

  

  Rachel Bilson
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• I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.

  

  Ted Williams
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• Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
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• As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.

  

  Kajol
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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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• True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

  

  Joseph Addison
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• I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
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• My buddy Ron (Tater Salad) White talks about drinking my dip cup accidentally to swallow some aspirin. I was there when it happened and laughed my ass off. Was he amused? Of course not, but since it wasn't me drinkin' week-old Skoal spit it was downright comical! (p. 230).

  

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• The Learner must be led always from familiar objects toward the unfamiliar, guided along, as it were, a chain of flowers into the mysteries of life.

  

  Charles Willson Peale
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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
  • True
  • Belief
  • Mysterious