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| Okay, I got shown a couple more on Mid-Atlantic Musings - thanks to sallyg! " 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 (1880- 1956) Not politics but interesting-- It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. H. L. Mencken In the end, only kindness matters. Art and Artists & The Reading Room http://cubits.org/thereadingroom/ |
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Ah! H. L. Mencken, one of my very favorite cynics!  Confidence is that feeling you have right before you do something really stupid. |
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| I need to look her/him up - sounds like an interesting person. In the end, only kindness matters. Art and Artists & The Reading Room http://cubits.org/thereadingroom/ |
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| I have a delightful little book called "The Book of Poisonous Quotes." H. L. Mencken figures prominently. "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard." Confidence is that feeling you have right before you do something really stupid. |
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| LOL! Okay, I'm going to Wikipedia right now. In the end, only kindness matters. Art and Artists & The Reading Room http://cubits.org/thereadingroom/ |
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   I have little confidence in any enterprise or business or investment that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders. |
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| Oh man, he must've been a force to be reckoned with.... ..."in 1931, the Arkansas legislature passed a motion to pray for Mencken's soul after he had called the state the "apex of moronia."[citation needed]..." In the end, only kindness matters. Art and Artists & The Reading Room http://cubits.org/thereadingroom/ |
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Apparently yes & no... there was a review of a Mencken collection in the WSJ this very weekend & though the reviewer was expecting great things, he found instead a lot of mediocrity.  Bummer. I always wanted to read some Mencken, thinking the same as the reviewer, I 'spect. Think I'll just stick w/the pithy quotes. From the review of HL Mencken: Prejudices a collection of essays & journalism published between 1919& 1927... "Some of the pieces are very good... In particular, Mencken's essay on William Jennings Bryant, the prairie populist and endless presidential candidate, remains a classic and well worth reading. But the vast majority of the pieces in Prejudices are tedious and ephemeral, even terrible at times. Anyone seeking the reasons for Mencken's high reputation would do better by turning to Huntington Cairns' The American Scene (1965), an anthology that judiciously selects from Mencken's autobiographical works, his writings on the American language and his various superb efforts at reportage, including his famous account of the 1925 Scopes Trial, in which fundamentalist religion famously butted heads with evolutionary theory." Jay I have little confidence in any enterprise or business or investment that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders. |
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You know, of all the stuff I've read on the Scopes Trial, I never got around to Mencken's account. Have to get my hands on that. Which may be a tricky task without spending a bunch of money. Grrrr, crummy library.  Confidence is that feeling you have right before you do something really stupid. |
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| There's a bunch of his stuff available for the Kindle... some of it free. Can you download the software for Kindle & get it? http://www.amazon.com/s/qid=1283874261/ref=sr_gnr_fkmr0?ie=U... I have little confidence in any enterprise or business or investment that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders. |
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| Wow, that review really would've tweaked Menken, lol.... that reviewer seems to be at odds with a number of other folks, I think further examination is warranted! In the end, only kindness matters. Art and Artists & The Reading Room http://cubits.org/thereadingroom/ |
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| Well, rats. Didn't spot any freebies there. Thanks, tho; that's ok, I'll do some poking around, maybe I can find just that article online somewhere. Where are those glasses? Between my blindness and this crummy keyboard, it's a wonder I can communicate at all. Anyway, that didn't take long: http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/menk... Confidence is that feeling you have right before you do something really stupid. |
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| "I don't know what is happening in other parts of the world, but in this country where we live the world no longer announces its end but demonstrates it." Pope Gregory the Great (540-604) Who?  I have little confidence in any enterprise or business or investment that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders. |
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| Here's a saint I can relate to.... O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD) In the end, only kindness matters. Art and Artists & The Reading Room http://cubits.org/thereadingroom/ |
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| Can't let a good thread die.... "The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos." - Stephen Jay Gould In the end, only kindness matters. Art and Artists & The Reading Room http://cubits.org/thereadingroom/ |
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| One of my favorites, this from Bertrand Russell. "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it isn't utterly absurd. Indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible." |
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| Here here.... In the end, only kindness matters. Art and Artists & The Reading Room http://cubits.org/thereadingroom/ |
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 One of the reasons I tend to avoid bestseller novels and popular movies. Confidence is that feeling you have right before you do something really stupid. |
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| Love it! And so blinking true! woofie, you mean to tell me you weren't waiting in line around midnight for the latest Eclipse novel?  Bloodless passion in teenagers? How could you resist? I have little confidence in any enterprise or business or investment that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders. |
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| You said it.....teenagers.....shudder.....(where's that emoticon for finger down throat when you really need it? ) Confidence is that feeling you have right before you do something really stupid. |
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