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Running Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing…
- It is difficult to imagine anyone having any real hopes for the human race in the face of the fact that the great majority of…
- In the long run all battles are lost, and so are all wars.
- The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases,…
- The time must come inevitably when mankind shall surmount the imbecility of religion, as it has surmounted the imbecility of religion's ally, magic. It is…
- All of the great patriots now engaged in edging and squirming their way toward the Presidency of the Republic run true to form. That is…
- The two main ideas that run through all of my writing, whether it be literary criticism or political polemic are these: I am strong in…
- Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly conceivable that He may have finished…
- During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon useless and evil things than would suffice to run the…
- Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
- It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by…
- Consider... the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary,…
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- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- I exercise everyday. I swim, I bike, I run and I go to the gym. — Lance Armstrong
- I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing… — Neil Armstrong
- I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender… — David Attenborough
- We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups. — Margaret Atwood
- Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already. — Marcus Aurelius
- We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears… — Marcus Aurelius
- The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit. — Teresa of Avila
- If you look at the themes that he struck from the minute he started running for president through today, there is a… — David Axelrod