H. L. Mencken Quotes
The music critic, Huneber, could never quite make up his mind about a new symphony until he had seen the composer's mistress.
H. L. Mencken
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
Sam Childers
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I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.
Daniel Cormier
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I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.
Nancy Pelosi
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
Hannah Gadsby
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If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.
Yuna
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
Barack Obama
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
Gary Larson
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I eat two breakfasts, two lunches, and two dinners throughout the day. It's always eating.
J. J. Watt
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The things I do, I do from the heart and out of love and respect for our planet and all living things. And I draw my courage from my love for justice and truth, and I calm my fears by comforting those who are more scared than me. And I try to do my best to make the world a better place, one small action at a time, as good as I can.
Q'orianka Kilcher
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Back when Saddam Hussein was in power, the Americans didn't care about his crimes. When he was gassing the Kurds and gassing Iran, they didn't care about it. When oil was at stake, somehow, suddenly, things mattered.
Sam Richards
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So many people in their 20s and 30s, on Twitter, say 'Please write something for us,' so I have to listen to them, they're my audience.
R. L. Stine
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The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.
Tammy Faye Bakker
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I do play the guitar, but I do it for fun. And I am terrible at writing music as well. I have tried and failed, horribly.
Jamie Blackley
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Actual knowledge is identical with its object: in the individual, potential knowledge is in time prior to actual knowledge, but in the universe as a whole it is not prior even in time. Mind is not at one time knowing and at another not. When mind is set free from its present conditions it appears as just what it is and nothing more: this alone is immortal and eternal, and without it nothing thinks.
Aristotle
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The Cold War did end in the victory of one side and in the defeat of the other. This reality cannot be denied, despite the understandable sensitivities that such a conclusion provokes among the tenderhearted in the West and some of the former leaders of the defeated side.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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I'm comfortable with my body but I don't like my bum - I think it's too big.
Jennifer Ellison
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The music critic, Huneber, could never quite make up his mind about a new symphony until he had seen the composer's mistress.
H. L. Mencken