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Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.

H. L. Mencken

Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.
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Dignity Human Race
The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.
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Education Knowledge Simplicity Teaching Wonderful
After all is said and done, a hell lot of a lot more is said than done.
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Action Hell Talk
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Leadership Men Priviledge Right Value
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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Animal Art Democracy Science
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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Democracy Freedom Imagination World
The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.
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Himself Ideas Man Thinking True
Change is not progress.
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Change Difference One Liner Progress
There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.
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Difference Kind Smart Stay
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Fear God Happiness
The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.
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Freedom Government Ideas Kind Men
The ideal way to get rid of any infectious disease would be to shoot instantly every person who comes down with it.
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Death Freedom Ideal Kill Sick
For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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Choice Moral Philosophy Problem Simplicity Wrong
There is no idea so stupid that you can’t find a professor who will believe it.
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Believe Ideas Stupidity Teaching Yourself
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
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Food Politics Promise
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.
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Democracy Freedom Right Rule Success War

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