H. L. Mencken Quotes
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
H. L. Mencken
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
Sam Hunt
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You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.
Ed Bradley
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
Haile Selassie
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Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.
D. B. Sweeney
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People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.
Gary Ackerman
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Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
Ma Jian
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I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.
Wadada Leo Smith
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For every athlete, it is very important to be able to engage in their favorite thing, give all the best in training, performing in competitions, defending the honor of the motherland.
Fedor Emelianenko
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Naturalization is the process by which a citizen, or subject of a foreign nation or kingdom, is made a citizen of the United States. It is evident that the Constitutional Convention thought that it was important that this process should be placed under the exclusive control of the Federal Government and not of the States.
Samuel Freeman Miller
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Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
Eartha Kitt
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For decades, NRDC has created and supported policies that will ultimately end our reliance on fossil fuels.
Frances Beinecke
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I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?
Gary Bettman
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I didn't know there was so many people in this world that knew of me.
Patsy Cline
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That's life. Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you.
Martin Goldsmith
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There's an idea called "gray man", in the security business, that I find interesting. They teach people to dress unobtrusively. Chinos instead of combat pants, and if you really need the extra pockets, a better design conceals them. They assume, actually, that the bad guys will shoot all the guys wearing combat pants first, just to be sure.
William Gibson
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The people who are on the front lines every day in hospitals, nurses, the people who are running clinics, the people who are taking care of your children, those are the people who are the lovers of the world, are the good of the world.
Eve Ensler
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The friends in my real life do tend to be smart and funny and creative. I am lucky!
Elizabeth Berg
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A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
H. L. Mencken
