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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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My life is not unlike Truman's. I can't go anywhere.
— Jim Carrey
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It was such a leap in my career when 'Truman Show' came along. It's always been a long process for me insofar…
— Jim Carrey
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My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman.
— Jimmy Carter
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Bipartisanship on behalf of an imprudent policy can be folly, just as partisanship on behalf of a just cause can be wise.…
— Unknown Author
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Foreign policy of a pluralistic democracy like the United States should be based on bipartisanship because bipartisanship is the means and the…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.
— Ed Harris
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I've reached a point in my life where my Truman Show boat has hit the painting.
— Kanye West
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Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.
— Stephen Ambrose
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Harry Truman once said, 'There are 14 or 15 million Americans who have the resources to have representatives in Washington to protect…
— John F. Kennedy
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We have got to accept Big Government for the duration-for neither an offensive nor a defensive war can be waged, given our…
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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I liked Truman very much. He was precise and businesslike. After a while, it was his turn.
— Lord Mountbatten
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I am the heterosexual Truman Capote.
— Joseph Epstein
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