H. L. Mencken Quotes

Our literature, despite several false starts that promised much, is chiefly remarkable, now as always, for its respectable mediocrity.

H. L. Mencken

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• I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.

  

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• Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.

  

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• You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.

  

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• In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.

  

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• Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

  

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• I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.

  

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• I'm lucky that I have my family, I'm lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish.

  

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• I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.

  

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• The train's always full of football fans going up to see matches. Oh, they make sure I hear their points of view all right. They all want to have their say about their team, and make their opinions known.

  

  Gary Lineker
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• God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.

  

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• I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt.

  

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• I run a fast pace on my sets, man. I like the energy of the scene to be the energy on the set. I think it affects the actors, and I think it affects the crew. There's that sensation like you're really shooting it for real, like in a documentary.

  

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• I have been involved with the USO really my entire life. The first show I did for the USO, I was nine years old.

  

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• It's really important, especially for young girls, to see that if you fall down, you get back up. If you get sick, you get back up. People are going to say what they want.

  

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• I know what poverty is.

  

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• People like to hear me say, 'You love me, Chandler Bing. You just don't know you love me.'

  

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• I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.

  

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• I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.

  

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• The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.

  

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• Pascal is called the founder of modern probability theory. He earns this title not only for the familiar correspondence with Fermat on games of chance, but also for his conception of decision theory, and because he was an instrument in the demolition of probabilism, a doctrine which would have precluded rational probability theory.

  

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• It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

  

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• Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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• Our literature, despite several false starts that promised much, is chiefly remarkable, now as always, for its respectable mediocrity.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Literature
  • Mediocrity
  • Remarkable