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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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True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated…
— Louis Kronenberger
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Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist
— Ethel Merman
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Our model citizen is a sophisticate who, before puberty, understands how to produce a baby, but who at the age of thirty…
— Wendell Berry
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In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning.
— Maimonides
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On the one hand, we may tell the truth, regardless of consequences, and on the other hand we may mellow it and…
— H. L. Mencken
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I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience.
— Billy Joel
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What constitutes a good manager in this field? He must be knowledgeable in the art with which he is concerned, an impresario,…
— John D. Rockefeller
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What is a sophisticate? He is a man who thinks he can swim better than he can and sometimes he drowns.
— Oscar Hammerstein II
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What is a heart? An organ that makes your blood pump faster. Only a Sophisticate knows consciously or not what makes her…
— Debbie Pfisterer
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