"The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."
-H. L. Mencken
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"Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.“
-H. L. Mencken
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"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance."
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"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."
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"Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable."
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"We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine."
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"Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."
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"Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death."
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"Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals."
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