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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Each time a new disaster puts miners in the news, the press tries to make them into heroes, but they don't quite fit the bill. They don't march off to war or rush into burning buildings or rid our streets of crime.
Tawni O'Dell
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'Walking Dead' has done great on Netflix, but to pay for the full output deal just to get 'Walking Dead' didn't make sense.
Ted Sarandos
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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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The idea of social justice is that the state should treat different people unequally in order to make them equal.
Friedrich August von Hayek
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Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career, and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself. I started playing bass in November 1996, and by June 1998 I was doing my first live show.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
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I never thought it was fair for an 8-year-old child not to be able to afford shoes, or to wander the streets having to beg for money. To know that child's joy would end soon, when they realised there was no future.
Shakira
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My main focus is to always try to be myself first, and then, hey, if I wear a cool jacket, that's a bonus.
John Krasinski
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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