H. L. Mencken Quotes
Unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency should be quietly hanged as a matter of public sanitation and decorum.
Quotes to Explore
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The real war will never get in the books.
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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
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You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.
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One person I've always wanted to work with who would be an amazing guest star would be James Earl Jones.
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A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.
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Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people.
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Whenever I am asked about my personal relationships, I politely reply, 'No comments.'
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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
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I had no interest in high school besides art.
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I find Denver's hipster scene to be fully unique.
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There is Twitter outrage at everything. Be it a pair of trousers or a short skirt, somebody, somewhere, will not like it.
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I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.
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All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
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When I'm not acting, I'm writing, building an inventory of scripts. Even if they sit on the shelf, I just keep stacking them up.
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I think that, in the end, the military behavior and intelligence services are not very different from each other. It's an attitude of hunters; they're observing the prey.
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I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer.
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When you want to make a film abroad, you need producers and people who support you. You need a team that speaks your language.
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'But what am I to do?' cried the Prince.'What you feel you must,' said the Theel. 'That’s the only thing to do at any time.'
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When we want to be something other than the thing that God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy...whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want. Once more, we are embarrassed by the intolerable compliment, by too much love, not too little.
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I live in New York. I have an amazing apartment over there; I have this amazing life over there that's full of glamour. I get treated like a queen over there - and that's one of the reasons I love coming home. It's very grounding.
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Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack.
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Consider the wheelbarrow. It may lack the grace of an airplane, the speed of an automobile, the initial capacity of a freight car, but its humble wheel marked out the path of what civilization we still have.
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The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense.
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Unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency should be quietly hanged as a matter of public sanitation and decorum.
