H. L. Mencken, Prejudices: Second Series, 1920

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There is always a well-known solution to every human problem--neat, plausible, and wrong.






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FileMaker 7/8/9/10/11 Certified Developer FileMaker 9/10/11 Authorised Trainer Linked IN Profile There is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong. H. L. Mencken, Prejudices: Second Series, 1920 ...
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... is always a well-known solution to every human problem ? neat, plausible, and wrong. "The Divine Afflatus" in New York Evening Mail (16 November 1917); later published in Prejudices: Second Series (1920) and A Mencken Chrestomathy(1949)
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H L Mencken ? still right on the mark (or maybe not) after all these years. ?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 ... As a critic Mencken had poor taste and worse judgment: he hated jazz and was utterly incapable of appreciating modernism in literature or the visual arts. Worst of all, he was a terrible human being, full of prejudice and ambition. ...
hl mencken, prejudices: second series, 1920
hl mencken, prejudices: second series, 1920.
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[8]See H.L. Mencken, The Divine Afflatus, in Prejudices: Second Series 155, 158 (1920). To be fair, this is a weakness that VaR's leading proponents have predicted. See Philippe Jorion, In Defense of VAR, Derivatives Strategy, ...


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