H. L. Mencken Quotes

All the great villainies of history, from the murder of Abel onward, have been perpetrated by sober men, chiefly by Teetotalers.

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• I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.

  

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• I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.

  

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• But I think we need the international market.

  

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• Politics is a good thing!

  

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• I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.

  

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• Unfortunately, we can never truly know if we're making the right decision. What we do know is that wherever we are, that's where the Light wants us to be. It's the best place for us to be now. And as long as we don't try to control the situation, then we won't end up in the place we shouldn't be.

  

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• I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.

  

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• We are very committed to putting forward a really bold message for the state of Colorado.

  

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• I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.

  

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• The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.

  

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• I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.

  

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• I've been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny.

  

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• Christians are being systematically exterminated.

  

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• Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded well into the 20th century.

  

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• I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.

  

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• Problems should be solved by talking and not in an aggressive manner.

  

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• When I was a boy in Salem, Mass., in the 1950s, if you wanted to buy a book, you had to take a train to Boston. And when you got there, to a bookstore, there was no such thing as a science-fiction section.

  

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• 'Our duty, Richard, is to be decorative and stay alive long enough to be promoted. But no one expects us to be useful! Good God! A junior officer being useful? That'll be the day.'

  

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• I went to, while I was in the military, Western New England College for my MBA and New England School of Law for my law degree.

  

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• All the great villainies of history, from the murder of Abel onward, have been perpetrated by sober men, chiefly by Teetotalers.

  

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