"What I got in Sunday school ... was simply a firm conviction that the Christian faith was full of palpable absurdities, and the Christian God preposterous.... The act of worship, as carried on by Christians, seems to me to be debasing rather than ennobling. It involves groveling before a being who, if he really exists, deserves to be denounced instead of respected."

-- H. L. Mencken

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“He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent.”
“True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes except those of heaven are upon it.”

Source : Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1871). “Guesses at Truth”, p.444
“I don't know any other lifestyle. I get up in the morning and I really do feel that the world is my oyster, and I start that way, the same as I would if I were preparing to write a song: put a blank piece of paper up on the piano and you go for it.”
“It is music that welds spiritual and sensual, that can convey ecstasy free of guilt, faith without dogma, love as homage, and a person at home with nature and the infinite.”
“As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.”
“Keep in mind that Eric Alterman is media critic for The Nation-a hysterically left-wing magazine dedicated to the proposition that corporate America, U.S. foreign policy and the Republican Party are criminal, racist or both. The simple reality is that, for him, the Democratic Party is far too conservative.”
“I was profoundly embarrassed by it (the White Australia Policy) and did all I could to change it.”

Source : "100 Years: The Australian Story". Book by Paul Kelly (p. 196), 2001.
“I'm a light eater. As soon as it's light, I start to eat.”

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