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H. L. Mencken

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Nasihat

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

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Kreativitas

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

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Waktu

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

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Pernikahan

Husbands never become good they merely become proficient.

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Pernikahan

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

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Kehidupan

There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.

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Kejujuran

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

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Kepemimpinan

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

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Kepemimpinan

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

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Kepemimpinan

All government, of course, is against liberty.

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Kepemimpinan

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

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Sukses

No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.

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Cinta

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

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Motivasi

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

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Humor

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

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Cinta

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

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Pendidikan

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

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Perjuangan

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

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Cinta

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

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Cinta

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

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