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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.

Clarence Darrow

The purpose of life is to live it.
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Life Live One Liner Purpose
You can only be free if I am free.
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Freedom Myself One Liner
Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
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Charity Hate Misfortune Revenge
Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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Children Himself Intelligence Parents
If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
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Better Education Human Improvement Man Social
Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.
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Condition Conservative Effort Improvement Man Reaction War
No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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Fear Loyalty Nation Togetherness
Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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Justice Politics Room
The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
CLARENCE DARROW

Best Common Friendship Help Kind Passenger
I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor – anybody can do that – but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.
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Battle Fight Life Live Myself Oppression Poor Power Weakness
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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Greatness Idea Monument
Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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Law Poet Wreck
Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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Civilization Scope Trial
Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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Kill Murder Notice Potential Reading Satisfaction
Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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Belief Future God Life Myself Religion
You can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
CLARENCE DARROW

End Human Important Method Place Society

Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.

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