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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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An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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It is the mission of the pedagogue, not to make his pupils think, but to make them think right, and the more…
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Sham Harga had run a successful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and realizing that most of his…
— Terry Pratchett
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An efficient bartenders first aim should be to please his customers, paying particular attention to meet the individual wishes of those whose…
— Jerry Thomas
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Another thing he told his customers was that one of the great accounting unknowns of the modern age was how to value…
— Jane Smiley
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The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing…
— Adam Smith
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If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving…
— Noam Chomsky
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When I set up my first restaurant, I was so inspired by Wolfgang Puck, who is also based in L.A. and is…
— Nobu Matsuhisa
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Old time, in whose banks we deposit our notes, Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats; He keeps all his…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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