H. L. Mencken Quotes
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.H. L. Mencken
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Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
Adam McKay -
Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.
Ian Mckellen -
There's no way to understand housing as it exists today without federal policy.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.
Ziggy Marley -
Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.
Wally Schirra -
Katie Holmes is really amazing.
Bailee Madison
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However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have influence, and, even more importantly, Afghanistan's neighbors realize that it is high time that they work together, and not against one another.
Lakhdar Brahimi -
The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
Walter Gropius -
In San Francisco, I found Warren Levinson, who had set up a program to study Rous Sarcoma Virus, an archetype for what we now call retroviruses. At the time, the replication of retroviruses was one of the great puzzles of animal virology. Levinson, Levintow and I joined forces in the hope of solving that puzzle.
J. Michael Bishop -
We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.
Ed Markey -
So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
Sam Graves
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Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.
Yanis Varoufakis -
Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children.
Victoria Principal -
It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
Olafur Eliasson -
We need to learn to accept and certainly mourn any harm that comes to any human being on this earth. But we also need to not be vengeful.
Mandy Patinkin -
I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.
Carey Lowell -
The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
Edmund Burke
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I've never been a calm, midrange type person.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
If having true love and love that is expressive and free outside of work affects a project where you have to be restrained and in denial and fixed and closed off. This doesn't mean you go out and just destroy your love outside of your life and kind of mirror your movie.
Heath Ledger -
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
A. E. Housman -
I do write by hand. I just think - I don't know, it's a physical thing for me. It's a bodily thing. It literally has to earn its way through my hand.
Elizabeth Strout -
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
H. L. Mencken