H. L. Mencken Quotes
The theory behind representative government is that superior men-or at least men not inferior to the average in ability and integrity-are chosen to manage the public business, and that they carry on this work with reasonable intelligence and honest. There is little support for that theory in known facts.
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Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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It's a very good historical book about history.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.
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I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
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I got a big mouth.
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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
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I loved 'White Christmas' for the music aspect. I was into musical theater.
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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
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Ownership is a very complex judicial concept.
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It was so odd to have young kids singing 'Lovin' Feelin' because they knew it from 'Top Gun.'
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A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there in a book, you may have your question answered
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Frivolous thinking is due to foreign thought. Japan must no longer let the impudence of the white peoples go unpunished. It is the duty of Japan to fulfill her natural destiny, to cause China to respect the Japanese, to expel Chinese influence from Manchuria, and to follow the way of imperial destiny.
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At the office where the paper grows, she takes a break, drinks another coffee, and she finds it hard to stay awake. It's just another day.
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The theory behind representative government is that superior men-or at least men not inferior to the average in ability and integrity-are chosen to manage the public business, and that they carry on this work with reasonable intelligence and honest. There is little support for that theory in known facts.
