H. L. Mencken Quotes
A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
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We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.
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I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
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Your connections to all the things around you literally define who you are.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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With my parents, when I was younger, I always had to do two things. If I was acting, I always had to do a sport or something on the arts side of things along with that. That way, if one fell apart, I always had something else to fall back on.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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I didn't have any writer friends in college. I was a computer science major, but I was writing a lot, probably more than anybody I knew. I started to submit novels to New York when I was a freshman in college.
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What is the strongest cure?--Victory.
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In the house of God there is never ending festival; the angel choir makes eternal holiday; the presence of God's face gives joy that never fails.
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You can write anytime people will leave you alone and not interrupt you.
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When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line?
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A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
