H. L. Mencken Quotes
No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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They're like a weird couple. If you were to personify the artichoke and the oyster, they would have a great date. They would totally get along.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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The Hungarian people voted for NATO membership. We are active in the joint actions of NATO.
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A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world.
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Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.
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Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.
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Let's abolish the IRS, let's eliminate income tax, let's eliminate corporate tax, let's balance the federal budget, and if we need a tax, it can be one federal consumption tax.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
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Who wants to leave the door open to being dominated physically by another human being? Jiu Jitsu gives you the ability to not be dominated by that person, and to me, that's real peace of mind. I don't have to worry about that when I'm walking around in the world.
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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The list of things that are conventional today that I use every day that I thought would never make it is a very long list.
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I think my guideline has been to find things that inspire me. And as long as I stick to that, I don't think I'll have any problems crossing over to becoming an adult actress.
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Chick Hearn was my favorite broadcaster ever - he's the one who taught me to think basketball, how to love basketball.
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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
