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Post by acptulsa on Sept 19, 2017 7:49:15 GMT -8
'Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.'--H. L. Mencken
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Post by acptulsa on Oct 28, 2017 7:21:05 GMT -8
“The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.”― H.L. Mencken
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Post by acptulsa on Oct 28, 2017 7:22:15 GMT -8
“Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.”― H.L. Mencken
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Post by acptulsa on Oct 28, 2017 7:25:51 GMT -8
“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.”― H.L. Mencken
“Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on "I am not too sure.”― H.L. Mencken
“Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.”― H.L. Mencken
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Post by acptulsa on Oct 28, 2017 7:26:08 GMT -8
“Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.”― H.L. Mencken
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Post by acptulsa on Oct 28, 2017 7:30:21 GMT -8
“The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.”― H.L. Mencken
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Post by acptulsa on Oct 28, 2017 7:32:50 GMT -8
“Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.”― H.L. Mencken
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