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The body politic

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For Aristotle, democracy is possible only within homogeneous ethnic groups, while despots have always reigned over highly fragmented societies.

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"Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master." - H. L. Mencken

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"The more noisy Negro leaders, by depicting all whites as natural and implacable enemies to their race, have done it a great disservice. Large numbers of whites who were formerly very friendly to it, and willing to go to great lengths to help it, are now resentful and suspicious." - H. L. Mencken

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"There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong." - H. L. Mencken

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"Can you please pass the salt?" H. L. Mencken

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. H. L. Mencken

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"There is no idea so stupid that you can't find a professor who will believe it." - H. L. Mencken

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Some people have a way with words. Others have not way.

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I found the perfect Mencken Quote for ya @pmyb2

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“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?” ― Epicurus

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“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.” ― Will Rogers

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“I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.” ― Tom Waits

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Hell is full of good meanings, but heaven is full of good works

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The road to hell is paved with good intentions

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A quote from Aldous Huxley [850x400 - 53KB]

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“Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.” ― Benjamin Franklin

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Lord, protect me from my friends...

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“Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.” ― Benjamin Franklin

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“One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

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“I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.” ― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.” ― Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

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“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.” ― Anais Nin

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Sam Adams [512x384 - 197KB]

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If God ordains that Man should die without a fight, then why does he give us the will to live?

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