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Walter Wolf

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“A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.”
― H.L. Mencken

tags: black-cat, blind, cat, funny, humor, joke, lie, lies, looking, man, metaphysics, misattributed-h-l-mencken, philosopher, philosophy, religion, search, theologian, theology, untruth, untruthful, wishful-thinking

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“The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.”
― H.L. Mencken

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“No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.”
― H.L. Mencken

tags: romance

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“The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.”
― H.L. Mencken

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“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
― H.L. Mencken, On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe

tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, meritocracy, politics, predictions, voter, voting

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