H. L. Mencken Quotes
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
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I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die - and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.
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I work in a very contained environment, usually.
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The pace of television is very different from film.
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Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.
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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
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Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.
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We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
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Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can.
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When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.
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I'm not into the attention thing so much.
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I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.
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My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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I'm interested in Dathan Ritzenhein's future in the marathon, and I believe that's where we need to address some issues he seems to have. He's had good marathon coaches - both Brad Hudson and me. He's figured out the fueling. He's got this incredible aerobic engine. But something's still wrong.
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Treat all men alike.... give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who is born a free man should be contented when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases. We only ask an even chance to live as other men live. We ask to be recognized as men. Let me be a free man...free to travel... free to stop...free to work...free to choose my own teachers...free to follow the religion of my Fathers...free to think and talk and act for myself.
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One truth opened another. Ona still shaded everything we did. Ona's death was the last family affair. I'd seen Man suffer. I'd seen her break. Now more than anything. I wanted to see her happy.
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Now everything that you do is written in red or black in Angel Gabriel's book. Not for everyone is this record kept, but only for those who have taken a position of responsibility. There is a Law of Sins, and if you do not fulfil all your obligations, you will pay.
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Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
