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No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. – H.L. Mencken

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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. – H.L. Mencken

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Marriage
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When I die I shall be content to vanish into nothingness…. No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever…. I do not believe in immortality, and have no desire for it. – H.L. Mencken

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Death
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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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In the United States today, we have more than our share of nattering nabobs of negativism. – Spiro T. Agnew

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We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of the Americans. – Ruben Askew

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America

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people. – Gloria Steinem

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America

I always tell myself: You can do better than this. The best slogan I can think of to leave with the U.S.A. would be: We can do and we’ve got to do better than this. – Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904–1991)

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Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen. – John Ciardi

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on ones ideas, to take a calculated risk – and to act. – Andre Malraux

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