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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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Watching Bernadette Peters perform is like an acting class. She's amazing.
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Eric Peters' music is at the top of what gets played around my house, in my car and while I am running.…
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All men will be Peters in their bragging tongue, and most men will be Peters in their base denial; but few men…
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In art there is compassion, in compassion there is humanity, with humanity there is generosity and love,' Peters said.
— Gregory Peck
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It is [a politician's] business to get and hold his job at all costs. If he can hold it by lying, he…
— H. L. Mencken
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Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, 'Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.' Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are…
— Tom Peters
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after an epic search, I finally found something neither green nor fuzzy. It was a hot sausage link. I named it Peter,…
— Darynda Jones
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But anyone can write, right?'" Conner asked. "I mean, that's why authors get judged so harshly, isn't it? Because technically everyone could…
— Chris Colfer
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SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they…
— Ambrose Bierce
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All the wife beaters and all the tax cheaters sitting in the White House pulling their peters.
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