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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The average IQ in America is - and this can be proven mathematically - average.
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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 inhale loneliness like it is the sweet smell of virgin earth conquered by fiery rain drops. Within me, I'm a thousand others.
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To us, 'The Amazing Race' takes the whole world and turns it into a giant game. What could be better?
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Everybody knows a guillotine choke, and most know how to get to one. But if you can create a different way to get to that choke, then you're going to surprise people. However, that will only happen one time, because once it gets used that one time, everyone will see that and start to train for it.
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We are in a very strange way going back to the mentality of the time when Americans went in covered wagons. I imagine they had a piece of cloth, and the piece of furniture they carried with them meant to be a good piece of wood, and sturdy. We're going back to that.
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The facts will eventually test all our theories, and they form, after all, the only impartial jury to which we can appeal.
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A dull, dark, depressing day in Winter: the whole world looks like a Methodist church at Wednesday night prayer meeting.
