H. L. Mencken Quotes
The Christian church, in its attitude toward science, shows the mind of a more or less enlightened man of the Thirteenth Century. It no longer believes that the earth is flat, but it is still convinced that prayer can cure after medicine fails.
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Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respiration - acquire the pace. Otherwise you stop right away.
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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'Morning Joe' host Mika Brzezinski's personal life is a minefield. Her father is Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, and while one brother is an Obama appointee, the other advises Romney.
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Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.
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For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.
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The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top.
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Daring is not safe against daring men.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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Working with children has done well for me. I don't find them intolerable or frustrating. They're just fun, full of energy, and happy to be there.
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Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?
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It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
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I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.
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Wine is something to enjoy. We get sick and tired of people who pick it apart and talk about its 'saucy nuances.'
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The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.
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I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we had a bookcase in the kitchen filled with cookbooks. I would eat all my meals reading about meals I could have been having.
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The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.
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Every day someone notices me and waves to me, or stops and speaks to me, or asks me for an autograph, or photographs me.
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Engagement means that in the future there will be a lot more ways for our audience to interact with Univision content.
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I do have a sister - I have two sisters.
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Knowing that the treatments that would be administered the following morning would erase all memory of our conversation. I did not last long in that job.
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The Christian church, in its attitude toward science, shows the mind of a more or less enlightened man of the Thirteenth Century. It no longer believes that the earth is flat, but it is still convinced that prayer can cure after medicine fails.
