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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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Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief…
— Alexis Carrel
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Short, sweet, and to the point. Clear writing, and therefore clear commands, comes from clear thinking. Think simple.
— Tim Ferriss
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Language learning deserves special mention. It is, bar none, the best thing you can do to hone clear thinking.
— Tim Ferriss
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Convictions can best be supported with experience and clear thinking.
— Albert Einstein
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Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.
— Edward Tufte
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Good design is clear thinking made visible, bad design is stupidity made visible
— Edward Tufte
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Neckties strangle clear thinking.
— Lin Yutang
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The social consequence of the psychedelic experience is clear thinking -which trickles down as clear speech. Empowered speech.
— Terence McKenna
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Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can't exist without the other.
— William Zinsser
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Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A well organized education should not be one which prepares students for a good remuneration alone. It should be one that can…
— Haile Selassie
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These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea…
— C.S. Lewis
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