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Far Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain. It is, I believe, the greatest of human inventions, and by far…
- The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and…
- It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone - that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any man…
- Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma’ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony…
- Government, in its very essence, is opposed to all increase in knowledge. Its tendency is always towards permanence and against change...[T]he progress of humanity, far…
- No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me…
- Here is something that the psychologists have so far neglected: the love of ugliness for its own sake, the lust to make the world intolerable.…
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- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I… — Dido Armstrong
- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next… — Neil Armstrong
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so… — Sholem Asch
- Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind… — Mary Kay Ash
- As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed. — Bashar al-Assad
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into… — David Attenborough