H. L. Mencken Quotes
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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
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More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but that's more like a spice.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.
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The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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You kind of think people get sick of you after a while, but apparently not.
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No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.
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I saw 'The Devil Wears Prada.' I don't think it's a reality.
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I hope to attend it as Japan needs to tell the world the lessons, knowledge and reflections learned from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.
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A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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I have a friend who is around my age, a little younger, and she's gay and came out to her own community when she was younger but not to her family and to the community at large.
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I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.
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Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
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As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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When I read the statements of Christ, there seems to be this urgency and intensity. I guess that's what I get out of it when I read the tone of the Scriptures, which is very different from the tone of our culture.
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Christina Baker Kline writes exquisitely about two unlikely friends—one, a 91-year-old survivor of the grinding poverty of rural Ireland, immigrant New York and the hardscrabble Midwest; and the other, a casualty of a string of foster homes—each struggling to transcend a past of isolation and hardship. Orphan Train will hold you in its grip as their fascinating tales unfold.
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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.
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I would have preferred it if the government of Turkey had not felt it necessary to issue its declaration... by doing so the process has frankly been made more difficult.
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Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
