The chief business of the nation, as a nation, is the setting up of heroes, mainly bogus. - H. L. Mencken

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Like nature, our economic system remains, in the long run, stable and rational. . . We welcome the inevitable seasons of our economy! How foolish of us.

H. L. Mencken

The chief business of the nation, as a nation, is the setting up of heroes, mainly bogus.

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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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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.

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The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

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The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.

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People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist?

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This is the day when people reciprocally offer, and receive, the kindest and the warmest wishes, though, in general, without meaning them on one side, or believing them on the other. They are formed by the head, in compliance with custom, though disavowed by the heart, in consequence of nature.

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Like nature, our economic system remains, in the long run, stable and rational. . . We welcome the inevitable seasons of our economy! How foolish of us.

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I fantasized about being a psychology major when I first started school, and I took a handful of Psych 101 classes.

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Yes, I was correctly quoted in saying I introduced sex into films in the 20's, but it was sex in good taste and left a great deal to one's imagination.

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