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It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

H. L. Mencken

There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.
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Difference Kind Smart Stay
Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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Feminism Hate Man Women
On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.
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Funny Issues Man Trust Women
After all is said and done, a hell lot of a lot more is said than done.
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Action Hell Talk
Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
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Freedom Funny Limitation Oneself Politics
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.
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Citizenship Education Learning Liberty Possible Reality Simplicity
The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
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Face Survive Truth
A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to Heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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Funny Heaven Humor Person Place
Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love.
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Build Hate Love Religion
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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Democracy Deserve Freedom People Theory
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Leadership Men Priviledge Right Value
All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.
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Government Himself Men Oppression
No professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional politicians are dedicated wholeheartedly to waste and corruption. They are the enemies of every decent man.
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Corruption Dedication Enemy Himself Man Politics Professional Waste
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.
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Daring Lying Man People Success Truth Violence
It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.
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Education Ourselves Run Time
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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Democracy Freedom Imagination World

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