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The Dickson Baseball Dictionary

by Paul Dickson

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Jul 28, 2017 06:05PM

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
― H.L. Mencken, On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe

tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, meritocracy, politics, predictions, voter, voting

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“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book

tags: wisdom

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“Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.”
― H. L. Mencken

tags: government

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“A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.”
― H.L. Mencken

tags: cynic, definitions

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“Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.”
― H. L. Mencken, Minority Report

tags: democracy

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