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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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Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and…
— James Allen
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Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Every man stamps his value on himself... man is made great or small by his own will.
— Friedrich Schiller
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When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes…
— Joseph Addison
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Gradually the sunken land begins to rise again, and falls perhaps again, and rises again after that, more and more gently each…
— Charles Kingsley
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Man is made for science; he reasons from effects to causes, and from causes to effects; but he does not always reason…
— James Hutton
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The life of man is made up of action and endurance; the life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is…
— Henry Parry Liddon
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Neither limits nor adversity are what ruin men. Under pressure, they handle themselves pretty well. It’s the lack of limits they can’t…
— Bill Bonner
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Every man is made to reach out beyond his grasp.
— Oswald Chambers
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Never forget that a man is made great and perfect as much by his faults as by his virtues. So we must…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made.
— Maria Montessori
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Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.
— Oscar Wilde
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