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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#caused #common #crime #kind #poor

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#equipment #fly #just #lack #moon

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#grow #grows #hard #heart #soft

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#always #back #come #commandments #fact

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#books #facets #knowledge #learning #men

Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#secure #self-respect #suspicious #yet

The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted. ↗

— Gregor Mendel

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If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#advances #conditions #cost #human #human suffering

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding. ↗

— Gian Carlo Menotti

#beauty #compete #effort #flowers #never

Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else. ↗

— Dmitri Mendeleev

#calm #else #find #look #nowhere