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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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One sound idea is all that you need to achieve success.
— Napoleon Hill
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Not one sound fears the silence that extinguishes it. And no silence exists that is not pregnant with sound.
— John Cage
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There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of a Milton is that he…
— H. L. Mencken
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Take pleasure in the impact of one sound on another.
— George Orwell
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By fate, not option, frugal Nature gave One scent to hyson and to wall-flower, One sound to pine-groves and to water-falls, One…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If there is one sound the follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.
— David Gemmell
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Man is capable of greatness, love, nobility, compassion. Yet never forget that his capacity for evil is infinite. It is a sad…
— David Gemmell
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Possible is more a matter of attitude, A matter of decision, to choose Among the impossible possibilities, When one sound opportunity Becomes…
— Dejan Stojanovic
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Money for me has only one sound: liberty.
— Coco Chanel
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