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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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New York is the place where all the aspirations of the western world meet to form one vast master aspiration, as powerful…
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The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet.
— Joseph Campbell
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We think the fire eats the wood. We are wrong. The wood reaches out to the flame. The fire licks at what…
— Jack Gilbert
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The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every…
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I get to travel, see the world, meet people and be independent. I feel blessed.
— Bar Refaeli
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What we seek in the end is not unconditional love but a love for which we, uniquely in all the world, meet…
— Robert Breault
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'District 9' was a singular anti-Apartheid metaphor, and 'Elysium' is a more general metaphor about immigration and how the First World and…
— Neill Blomkamp
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Pageants were an amazing platform that gave a little girl like me from the mountains of my beautiful Puerto Rico a chance…
— Joyce Giraud
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When I was young, no one told me that I was going to find you. I lived my life not knowing who…
— Ty S Onda
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The least unhappy persons do, in so fickle and so tempestuous a sea as this world, meet with many more either cross…
— Robert Boyle
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Friendship is when two similar perceptions of world meet
— Kotlesya
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