H. L. Mencken Quotes
The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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Once you avoid the things that accelerate aging like smoking, obesity, excessive alcohol consumption, and excessive sun exposure, you've done about as much as you can to influence your aging process.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
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I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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My mom often tells me to get married, but she gets it now that I don't want to. Like any other mom, she is worried, but she also understands the demands of my profession. I am blessed to have a family like this.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.
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Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.
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When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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What we have found is that we were the principal mediators in many cases between the Iraqis and their own security forces and their own government, and so you have to almost embrace that role.
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God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
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The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?
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Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.
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A radical is one who speaks the truth.
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I rely heavily on my beta readers' honest critiques.
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The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.
