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H. L. Mencken

"Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates."

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"Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates."

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"Even if everybody is looking at the same light bulb, the unique composition of an individual will dictate how they interpret and see things. Some people will only see things with their left eye (mind/moon), while others will use only their right (heart/sun). Some people are completely void of light and repel it immediately. For instance, a beetle will chase after an opening of light, while a cockroach will scatter at a crack of it. How are we different than the insects? Nobody is purely good or purely evil. Most of us are in-between. There are moths that explore the day and butterflies that play at night. Polarity is an integral part of nature - human or not human."

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"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."

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"Don't allow your imagination to colour events as lesser men would, and see movement in motionless things."

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"For us, a pretty bird is a pretty bird; for an insect, pretty bird is an ugly enemy!"

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"Appearance matters, we see your presentation before we get a chance to sample the substance within. You might miss a chance for the latter."

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"There are many degrees of sight and many degrees of blindness. What senses do we lack that we cannot see another world all around us?"

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"Everything is just how I imagined it, yet everything is new."

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"I don't think you can hold in your mind the full conception of what the world is."

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"Just because they annoy you doesn't mean they're wrong!"

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"Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous."

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"The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable."
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"All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it."
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