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It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
- Jessamyn West

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A mystic is someone who wants to understand the universe, but is too lazy to study physics.
- Unknown

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Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.
- Unknown

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All I ask of life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance.
- Unknown

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Today is the International Women's Day. The quote, of course, is a pure coincidence.

"If you can read this, the bitch fell off"
- Unknown, back of a motorcycle jacket

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Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
- Unknown

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Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.
- Unknown

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I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I've met.
- Unknown

Woe was me

This is how sunburned I was when I'd been here a few days. My shoulders were a lot worse, skin was peeling off like leaves in October.

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The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he granted that a horse-hair put into a bottle of water will turn into a snake.
- H. L. Mencken

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It’s inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for any public office.
- H. L. Mencken

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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable … A man full of faith is simply one who has lost (or never had) the capacity for clear and realistic thought. He is not a mere ass: he is actually ill.
- H.L. Mencken

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The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among those who are.
- Henry L. Mencken

Eaten alive

Just a quick post to ensure all of you envious mortals out there that my stay in Thailand isn't all roses and fluff. For a couple of days this weekend I was eaten alive by mosquitoes, and being incurably stupid I've scratched some of the bites to where my skin was just a bloody lump of pain. I'm slowly improving, to where it no longer hurts to put on pants or even just to walk.

Disappointed

As I've alluded to before, Thai food is generally very good. I'd advise you to stay clear of some of the frozen dinners here, though. One teensy weensy example here, a chicken & rice thingy I bought, in the naive hope that the delicious picture on the package had any resemblance to what was actually in there.

FAIL.

The rice wasn't just sticky, it was one inseparable lump of glue, both in texture and taste. The chicken was rubberlike in texture and blah in taste. Sigh.

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The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self- reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts; he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters.
- Henry L. Mencken

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Democracy is a form of religion. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses.
- H.L. Mencken

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Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
- H. L. Mencken

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God hated the world so much that he sent his only son so that whoever does not believe in him will perish and be denied eternal life.
- Unknown

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If at first you don't succeed, cheat!
- Unknown