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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
It's a great medium for trivia and hobbies, but not the place for reasoned, reflective judgment. Suprisingly often, discussions degenerate into acrimony, insults and flames.
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Clifford Stoll, Silicon Snake Oil, 1995
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), Women As Outlaws

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
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R.W. Emerson, Self-Reliance

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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Tell us your phobias, and we will tell you what you are afraid of.
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Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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Dame Edith Sitwell
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