H. L. Mencken Quotes
A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum.
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.
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Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.
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Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.
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We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.
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People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels until they land on the thing that's the least objectionable to them. They're not looking for their new favorite TV show because they know that that search will take forever and they'll go to bed unhappy.
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Dancing doesn't have a language.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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It's so easy to look foolish online.
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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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My specialty was baked potatoes with cheese melted over broccoli. I was also very good at melting cheese on bread.
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If you fall in love with someone, it doesn't matter who they are. I've had lots of girlfriends who weren't in the public eye. It is hard, all the intrusion: you have a row with someone, and even though you've sorted everything out, you get the are-they-going-to-split headlines for the next ten days.
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It's no fun to be a bluestocking in a family of jockstraps.
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Here in Europe, I think that there are a lot of young people who forget the issues that were at stake during the Cold War.
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People were desperately trying to fill their seats for the summer. And so prices are really low right now. And so they are kept from raising prices to make up for that difference.
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A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum.
