H. L. Mencken Quotes
To the extent that I am genuinely educated, I am suspicious of all the things that the average citizen believes and the average pedagogue teaches.
H. L. Mencken
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You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.
Kate Millett
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
Harry Browne
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Working on camera, your face is your career. But I'm not really one to buy into the pressures. At the end of the day, the job I do, it's more about the art and craft of it. If you're good at what you do, there's a place for you in the industry, no matter what you or your skin look like.
Yvonne Strahovski
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All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.
Hal Sparks
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
Harold Wilson
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My mother's the youngest of 10 children too, so we have sort of a special bond in that we know what that feels like. It's a strange spot to be in.
Jack White
The White Stripes
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All around the world, we send our top talent into finance, technology, medicine and law - everywhere but towards expanding opportunity for our most marginalized children.
Wendy Kopp
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No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that.
Harlan Coben
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He seemed to be witnessing with his own eyes the supreme bankruptcy of humanity. Wealth had spoken the truth that night on the mountain.
Gabrielle Roy
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And that's why in my Gujarat, my motto is: minimum government, maximum governance.
Narendra Modi
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We can no more blame it on good Middle Eastern citizens than we can blame Hitler on people of German descent.
Charlie Daniels
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The once rather old-fashioned science of paleontology finds itself in a maelstrom of excitement and controversy. Astrophysicists, atmospheric scientists, geochemists, geophysicists, and statisticians are all contributing to the extinction problem. And the general public is taking part through television talk shows, magazine cover stories, newspaper editorials, and even the occasional mention in gossip columns.
David M. Raup
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I really liked to perform. My mother always tells this story: I was five. They had a party, and they'd put me to bed. I heard everyone on the rooftop, and I went upstairs. No one paid any attention to me, so I took a hose and sprayed everyone. Very elegant, right? 'It's me! Look at me!' I loved the attention.
Gal Gadot
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Black scientists and technicians, many of them women, used cells from a black woman to help save the lives of millions of Americans, most of them white. And they did so on the same campus—and at the very same time—that state officials were conducting the infamous Tuskegee syphilis studies.
Rebecca Skloot
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Life's a lot easier when you're dumb.
Lisa Kudrow
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To the extent that I am genuinely educated, I am suspicious of all the things that the average citizen believes and the average pedagogue teaches.
H. L. Mencken
