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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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It is hard to hide our genes completely. However devoted someone may be to the privacy of his genotype, others with enough…
— Unknown Author
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I regard large inherited wealth as a misfortune, which merely serves to dull men's faculties. A man who possesses great wealth should,…
— Alfred Nobel
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Let the surgeon take care to regulate the whole regimen of the patient's life for joy and happiness by promising that he…
— Henri de Mondeville
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But as my brother was doing his research for a book about my father, it became his opinion that the most influential…
— Tobias Wolff
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Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
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Everyone wanted his relatives to be proud of him, didn't he?
— Jude Deveraux
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Nico di Angelo came into Olympus to a hero's welcome, his father right behind him, despite the fact that Hades was only…
— Rick Riordan
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To all the girls who are in a hurry to have a boyfriend or get married, a piece of Biblical advice: Ruth…
— Rachel Copeland
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Never judge a man by his relatives; he didnt choose them.
— Vikrant Parsai
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Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth - which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second,…
— The Talmud
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A poor man is shunned by all his relatives - how much more do his friends avoid him! Though he pursues them…
— Bible
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