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 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.
Daniel Espinosa
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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.
Wayne Newton
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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.
Kat Graham
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I know what poverty is.
Manny Pacquiao
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People like to hear me say, 'You love me, Chandler Bing. You just don't know you love me.'
Maggie Wheeler
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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.
Carlene Carter
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I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.
Bob Hope
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.
Ian Hacking
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It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.
Plutarch
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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