"Self-respect - The secure feeling that no..." - Quote by H L Mencken
Self-respect - The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
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“For the habitual truth-teller and truth-seeker, indeed, the whole world has very little liking. He is always unpopular.”
“There are some people who read too much: The bibliobibuli.”
“I know a good many men of great learning-that is, men born with an extraordinary eagerness and capacity to acquire knowledge. One and all, they tell me that they can't recall learning anything of any value in school. All that schoolmasters managed to accomplish with them was to test and determine the amount of knowledge that they had already acquired independently-and not infrequently the determination was made clumsily and inaccurately.”
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“We're responsible for the creation of the PC industry. The whole idea of compatible machines and lots of software - that's something we brought to computing. And so it's a responsibility for us to make sure that things like security don't get in the way of that dream.”
“Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.”
“People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security.”