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Set Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, and the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in his arms, but also a kind…
- There is, in fact, no reason to believe that any given natural phenomenon, however marvelous it may seem today, will remain forever inexplicable. Soon or…
- What are the hallmarks of a competent writer of fiction? The first, it seems to me, is that he should be immensely interested in human…
- To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10,000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride…
- The only way to reconcile science and religion is to set up something which is not science and something that is not religion.
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