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

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Source : H.L. Mencken (2013). “Notes On Democracy”, p.76, Knopf

H. L. Mencken

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“Every time I hear sounds, I see pictures. Then, I start getting ideas. It just drives me crazy”
“I believe in imagination. I was a worker when I was 17. Between 17 and 21, I was a worker in the telephone company and imagination saved my life.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed.”

Source : Ty Cobb, Al Stump (1961). “My life in baseball: the true record”
“All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.”
“Enterprise Washington is economic development in areas of high unemployment around the state of Washington.”
“Getting to a higher spiritual level is like increasing your credit score. You get a lot more points for sinning and repenting than if you have no credit history at all.”
“It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.”

Source : Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.468, Simon and Schuster
“In 2007, when I was governor of New York, I proposed that our state once again permit undocumented immigrants to obtain a driver's license. To say the proposal lit a firestorm in the political arena is an understatement.”

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