"We suffer most when the White House busts with ideas."

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H. L. Mencken

#Ideas Quotes #White Quotes #House Quotes

“At Chicago Hope they have a technical staff that works real hard to make that O.R. as realistic as possible.”
“What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.”
“Trust me no tortures which the poets feign Can match the fierce unutterable pain He feels, who night and day devoid of rest Carries his own accuser in his breast.”
“People who are lazy, careless, doubtful-minded or arrogant need not expect God to reveal His secret or covenant to them.”
“The days draw out, the weather gets warmer, and it's what we call summer, with a bitter laugh when we've said it.”

Source : Stan Barstow (1981). “A Kind of Loving: The Vic Brown Trilogy”, Michael Joseph
“Her [Rosalind Franklin] devotion to research showed itself at its finest in the last months of her life. Although stricken with an illness which she knew would be fatal, she continued to work right up to the end.”
“Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which Men are and ought to be accountable,-- If not to Thee, to those they influence.”
“So close is the bond between man and woman that you can not raise one without lifting the other. The world can not move ahead without woman's sharing in the movement, and to help give a right impetus to that movement is woman's highest privilege.”

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