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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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Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there…
— Aristotle
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The angels are a strange genus, they are precisely what they are and cannot be anything else. They are themselves soul-less beings…
— Carl Jung
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Out of hate, if you try to love that love will just be a hidden hate; it cannot be anything else-you are…
— Rajneesh
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LAUGHTER is the very essence of religion. Seriousness is never religious, cannot be religious. Seriousness is of the ego, part of the…
— Rajneesh
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The essence of a sound style is that it cannot be reduced to rules-that it is a living and breathing thing with…
— H. L. Mencken
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You cannot be anything that you point to.
— Mooji
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You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. But if you are content to be something, you may by analogy…
— Israel Zangwill
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I was born Muslim, my parents are Muslim, I am Bosnian. I cannot be anything else.
— Adnan
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The problem that faces our country today, the last 30 years we have lived off the future, and the bill is coming…
— Tom Coburn
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Man as seen as an organism or man as seen as a person discloses different aspects of the human reality to the…
— R. D. Laing
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You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.
— Solomon Schechter
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The incentive for business is not, and cannot, be anything other than the root incentive for all business: they must profit.
— Edward Norton
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