H. L. Mencken Quotes
I can't imagine a genuinely intelligent boy getting much out of college, even out of a good college, save it be a cynical habit of mind.
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
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The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.
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Justice is revenge.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.
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We, after a certain age, after college, are so consumed about what we want to achieve in life, and we fiercely are ambitious and we go after that, but sometimes we tend to take all our loved and dear ones for granted.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.
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Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.
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The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.
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What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
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The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
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We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost.
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Most of my time, energy and other resources I use to nurture my projects.
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In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love.
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Decades of scientific research has proven that carbon pollution is harmful to human health and causes global warming.
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Let's go dance under the elms:Step lively, young lassies.Let's go dance under the elms:Gallants, take up your pipes.
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I can't imagine a genuinely intelligent boy getting much out of college, even out of a good college, save it be a cynical habit of mind.
