H. L. Mencken Quotes
Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
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In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
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I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
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The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
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I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.
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I'm just going out there and doing exactly what I'm coached and doing exactly what I'm supposed to do and just trying to help this team win.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synthetics.
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
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Education is neither eastern nor western.
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I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
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You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
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The middle-aged woman is the ground bed of the audience that watches television, and yet they are absolutely invisible.
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My parents were hugely supportive like that. I was always the best - it's so embarrassing, isn't it? I was always the best at everything.
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Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.
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I don't look at myself as a historical icon, but the reality of it is, yeah, I am playing for history now.
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Academic freedom and free speech mean the right to consider ideas with which you might disagree.
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When I was 14 years old, I decided I could cook. It was either that or puberty.
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Turns out, what I love doing is making games. Not hyping games or trying to sell a lot of copies. I just want to experiment and develop and think and tinker and tweak.
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Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.
