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Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come

Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. – H.L. Mencken

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The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself. – H.L. Mencken

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Labor Day
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Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly conceivable that He may have finished it and then turned it over to lesser gods to operate. – H.L. Mencken

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If you teach your children nothing else, teach them the Golden Rule and “righty-tighty, lefty-loosey.” – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless. – Nicholas Chamfort

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The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. – Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

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The large print giveth, but the small print taketh away. – Tom Waits, Small Change

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We will never fully explain the world by appealing to something outside it that must simply be accepted on faith, be it an unexplained God or an unexplained set of mathematical laws. – Paul Davies

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In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. – Thomas Jefferson

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Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade – and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity. – George Soros

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