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There is no possibility whatsoever of reconciling science and theology, at least in Christendom. Either Jesus arose from the dead or He didn't. If he did, then Christianity becomes plausible; if He did not, then it is sheer nonsense. I defy any genuine scientists to say that he believes in the Resurrection, or indeed in any other cardinal dogma of the Christian system.

H. L. Mencken's Popular Quotes

When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.

- H. L. Mencken

If I ever mary, it will be on a suddn impulse - as aman shoots himself

- H. L. Mencken

There comes a time in every man's life when he's consumed by the desire to spit on his palms, hoist the black flag and start cutting throats.

- H. L. Mencken

The war on privilege will never end. Its next grat campaign will be against the special privileges of the underprivileged.

- H. L. Mencken

The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such great progress during the last century that they have got quite beyon…

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Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort to di…

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One horse-laugh is worth ten-thousand syllogisms.

- H. L. Mencken

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. He is like a watch of which the most that can be said is that its cosmetic effect is good.

- H. L. Mencken

The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

- H. L. Mencken