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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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The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a…
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Are you willing to work sixteen hours a day? Rich people are. Are you willing to work seven days a week and…
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With James Reese’s vivid and chilling novel, readers will gain a whole new appreciation of two gothic landmarks, Dracula and Jack the…
— Matthew Pearl
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There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that…
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favorite recreations... eating with friends, the service, the ambience.
— LeRoy Neiman
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Of all the various out-door recreations I have tried, when it comes to genuine, exciting sport, give me hunting with a camera....
— Roger Tory Peterson
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Virtual simulations allow post-traumatic stress disorder sufferers to re-experience the events that traumatized them, and then slowly desensitize themselves to their impact…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect…
— Anthony Trollope
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