H. L. Mencken Quotes
History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
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Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.
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Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.
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I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.
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The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.
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Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.
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I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going to play, man. Let's jam. I don't care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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Problems should be solved by talking and not in an aggressive manner.
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But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.
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I try to come at fitness and nutrition from a perspective of gentleness and what will make me feel good afterwards. I try to stay out of the mindset of needing to fix myself. I do whatever seems fun to me.
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We all travel the milky way together, trees and men; but it never occurred to me until this storm-day, while swinging in the wind, that trees are travelers, in the ordinary sense. They make many journeys, not very extensive ones, it is true; but our own little comes and goes are only little more than tree-wavings - many of them not so much.
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We Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless focus on the future, with business and government working together to promote growth and broadly shared prosperity. We think "we're all in this together" is a better philosophy than "you're on your own."
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The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.
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History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.
