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Business Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business…
- The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business…
- Good government is that which delivers the citizen from being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently-one that relieves him sufficiently…
- There is, in fact, no reason to believe that any given natural phenomenon, however marvelous it may seem today, will remain forever inexplicable. Soon or…
- The chief business of the nation, as a nation, is the setting up of heroes, mainly bogus.
- The artist is not a reporter, but a Great Teacher. It is not his business to depict the world as it is, but as it…
- The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me forget it.
- It is [a politician's] business to get and hold his job at all costs. If he can hold it by lying, he will hold it…
- For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
- There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.
- Jury - A group of 12 people, who, having lied to the judge about their health, hearing, and business engagements, have failed to fool him.
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