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H. L. Mencken has 641 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.
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Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.
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When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever I do…
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People say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police.
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Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left…
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Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God in a…
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The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more bloody chronicle…
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.
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To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong...
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The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a…
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I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the…
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Goverment is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are…
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The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer…
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I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench.
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Bench me or trade me.
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No judge can stop us from praying for our country and I pray that on May 6, millions of Americans will join…
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It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to…
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The bench press per se is not a risky exercise. When done right, it can help improve upper body strength and size.…
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