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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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Other conditions being equal, if one force is hurled against another ten times its size, the result will be the flight of…
— Sun Tzu
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Every Marine is, first and foremost, a rifleman. All other conditions are secondary.
— Alfred M. Gray
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Solitude. One knows instinctively it has benefits that must be more deeply satisfying than those of other conditions, but still it is…
— James Salter
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On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influence of conditions which were part…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. It's the…
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We see clear evidence repeated in many studies that higher intake of trans fats is associated with higher risk of heart disease,…
— Walter Willett
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Instead of using new technologies to preserve for ready discovery material that might in the past never have been stored, or deleting…
— Jonathan Zittrain
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Dementia is quite unlike cancer or heart disease or any of those other conditions where you bargain with God for a cure…
— Laurie Graham
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