Quotes

H.L. Mencken

in Quotes

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

— H.L. Mencken

Upton Sinclair

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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

— Upton Sinclair

Old Vegas Proverb

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There's a patsy in every game, and if you don't know who the patsy is, you're it.

— Old Vegas Proverb

Marcel Proust

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The only paradise is paradise lost.
— Marcel Proust

Bertrand Russell

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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
— Bertrand Russell

Thomas Jefferson

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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
— Thomas Jefferson

John W. Gardner

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We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
— John W. Gardner

Euripides

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Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
— Euripides

Anna Sewell

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There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.
— Anna Sewell

Margaret Millar

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Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.
— Margaret Millar