H. L. Mencken Quotes
By what route do otherwise sane men come to believe such palpable nonsense? How is it possible for a human brain to be divided into two insulated halves, one functioning normally, naturally
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If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?
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You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
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Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
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I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.
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He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars.
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I love cars, but I love bikes more.
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These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting and where to put the reversal and all of that - and I think we can do more interesting narratives.
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The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand, that shows it.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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I am so like Donna it's funny. And most of my friends are guys too.
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One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.
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I got stuff that's going to hurt for the rest of my life.
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In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
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You know, as most entrepreneurs do, that a company is only as good as its people. The hard part is actually building the team that will embody your company's culture and propel you forward.
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But there are times when the little cloud spreads, until it obscures the sky. And those times I look around at my fellow men and I am reminded of some likeness of the beast-people, and I feel as though the animal is surging up in them. And I know they are neither wholly animal nor holy man, but an unstable combination of both.
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My prayer for you, Donald Trump, would be for you to have an opportunity to experience the delight and the joy of what oneness truly is. And if you can have that in your life, if you could feel that feeling in your life, then my prayer would be that your division and your separation, your attack, would dissolve with that boundary.
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I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.
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By what route do otherwise sane men come to believe such palpable nonsense? How is it possible for a human brain to be divided into two insulated halves, one functioning normally, naturally
