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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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When you see a good move, look for a better one.
— Emanuel Lasker
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What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe.…
— Jonathan Kozol
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False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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A conceptual scheme is never discarded merely because of a few stubborn facts with which it cannot be reconciled; a conceptual scheme…
— James Bryant Conant
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I will say little of the importance of a good education; nor will I stop to prove that the current one is…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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This is the better one. It's identical.
— Alan Shearer
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The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.
— James Anthony Froude
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I am very slow to warm. I've always been sort of a loner. I didn't play team sports. I am better one-on-one…
— Rooney Mara
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I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that God isn't a good explanation, so we must wait…
— Richard Dawkins
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It is a dark, dark world. If you're going to be in a dark world, I can't think of any better one…
— James Gandolfini
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There are two things worth living for, one is a good cigar, the other is a better one.
— Raul Julia
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If intimidation is your game plan, I hope you have a better one.
— Colin Kaepernick
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