H. L. Mencken Quotes
We have had more brilliant Presidents than Cleveland, and one or two who were considerably more profound, but we have never had one, at least since Washington, whose fundamental character was solider and more admirable.
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Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.
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I have two older brothers. I am the baby. We're all very, very close. We're great communicators, so we get along really well.
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
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I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I'm not a fan of soccer, for sure not.
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All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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I am quite looking forward to working with Shah Rukh Khan.
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What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
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If we work so hard and put all the money in the hospital to buy medicine - it will be a disaster. Why we should work? So without a healthy environment of this Earth, no matter how much money you make, no matter how wonderful you are, you have a bad disaster.
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A lot of people think that because I'm from Malaysia, I'm driven by Malaysian sound, but actually, it's mostly just my melodies.
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American policies toward Asians reached a nadir in 1924, with the implementation of a law that sought 'to preserve the idea of American homogeneity' and denied admission to the country to most non-whites. Immigration from Asia was banned completely, with the establishment of an 'Asiatic Barred Zone.'
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I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.
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Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.
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I've got a transcendental way of thinking about things. I've got a galactic self.
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Fight Features. … The only way to make software secure, reliable, and fast is to make it small.
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Positive emotion alienated from the exercise of character leads to emptiness, to inauthenticity, to depression, and, as we age, to the gnawing realization that we are fidgeting until we die.
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Scandal rarely toured after those first few hits. I want to go out and sing and connect with fans who may have never seen us live.
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Play begins as a major feature of mammalian evolution and remains as a major method of becoming reconciled with our present universe.
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies... To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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We have had more brilliant Presidents than Cleveland, and one or two who were considerably more profound, but we have never had one, at least since Washington, whose fundamental character was solider and more admirable.
