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 lost $6 in Atlantic City once and said, 'Never again.'
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It's disrespectful to the older generation to have long hair. They fought in two world wars; they didn't fight for us to grow our hair and look like girls.
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My parents weren't religious at all. I remember the first time I heard about Jesus was at school.
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Well, because I'm naturally a tomboy, when I have sleepovers with girls, they end up going home and crying.
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A dull, dark, depressing day in Winter: the whole world looks like a Methodist church at Wednesday night prayer meeting.