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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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There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect,…
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It would seem that the more irresponsible and crafty one is, the more likely one is to have a talent for storytelling.
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The Law of Probabilities: the more things you try, the more likely one of them will work.
— Jack Canfield
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The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who…
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Somhow those Ten Men -- at the time they were called Recruiters, of course -- discovered that Constance had been at the…
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They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you…
— Khaled Hosseini
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I teach something called The Law of Probabilities, which says the more things you try, the more likely one of them will…
— Jack Canfield
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That said, I have come to believe that the more committed one is to leftism, the more likely one is to become…
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