H. L. Mencken Quotes
A dull, dark, depressing day in Winter: the whole world looks like a Methodist church at Wednesday night prayer meeting.
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The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.
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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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For someone who comes from my business background, getting fashion people aligned around certain things can be a challenge. In a way, the industry is so forward-looking. And yet, sometimes people in fashion are not open to change.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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I have to trust what I do and then do it.
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I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
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I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.
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Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.
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In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
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What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
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It's joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you're kind of an easy mark.
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I had started writing as a poet in a closed, post-Revival, claustrophobic world, where the shadows of the national upheaval and the intense effort - the intense self-conscious effort - to make a literary movement were still evident. Now we lived a life as writers that was more cosmopolitan, more open, that had more travel and exchange.
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I write as a matter of need - seven books and God knows how many short stories before anyone published me.
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The white men in our colonies are too frequently the savages.
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You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
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That computer was made in Alabama.
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I struggle as a writer, and I'm convinced that if I was at school now, I'd be termed as having ADS. Two minutes and I'm drifting.
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A dull, dark, depressing day in Winter: the whole world looks like a Methodist church at Wednesday night prayer meeting.
