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Quote by H.L. Mencken
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy,

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. – H.L. Mencken

Other quotes by H.L. Mencken

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. – H.L. Mencken

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Age
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H.L. Mencken
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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 it and then turned it over to lesser gods to operate. – H.L. Mencken

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Perspective
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Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the lepers bell of an approaching looter. – Ayn Rand

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There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. – Denis Waitley

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Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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People arent going to throw the kind of money at certain people that they used to. – Philip Seymour Hoffman

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We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane. – Francis Ford Coppola

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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you. – A. A. Milne

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Above all, we must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people. – Joseph Ratzinger

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