The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair. H.l. Mencken
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  2. Writing is prayer. - Franz Kafka
  3. I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer. - Martin Luther
  4. I don't pray because it doesn't work. Prayer doesn't fix anything. Bad things happen anyway. - Nicholas Sparks
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More Quotes By H.l. Mencken
  1. To theology, ... only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred.
  2. I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.
  3. If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism – at least in the sense of this work – is the secret of religion itself; that religion itself, not indeed on the surface, but fundamentally, not in intention or according...
  4. Christianity set itself the goal of fulfilling man’s unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignored his attainable desires. By promising man eternal life, it deprived him of temporal life, by teaching him to trust in God’s help it took away his trust in his...
  5. Faith does not limit itself by the idea of a world, a universe, a necessity.
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