H. L. Mencken Quotes
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God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way.
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I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
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Instead of asking God to remove our problems so that our lives might be happy, we must purposefully try to learn as much as we can - and thereby become happier due to our insights and growth.
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There's no sex in Middle Earth.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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I think humans are fascinating in general. We're so weird. We do so many quirky things, and we don't even know it. There's just so many layers upon layers of nuances in everything we do, and the most fun part as an actor is trying to get into all those nuances, whether they're conscious or unconscious.
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Apart from education, you need good health, and for that, you need to play sports.
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I feel like a good mom. I'm a strong woman now... Don't look down on me. Pray for me because I'm trying.
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Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.
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John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.
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I ate cucumbers and saltines - not because I wanted to look a certain way, but because I was so sad my appetite disappeared.
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I would never do crack. I would never do a drug named after a part of my own ass, okay?
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Whatever the universal perspective one adopts, it is important to recognise that some form of universalism is politically and ethically necessary.
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An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.
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Tests conducted before I graduated predicted a future for me in journalism, forestry, or the teaching of music; persons who know me well could recognize some truth in those seemingly errant prognoses.
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Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got used to it.
