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

Clarence Darrow

In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
CLARENCE DARROW

Choice Content Eat Judgment Leadership Life Oneself
Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
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Dreams Fact Forever Imagination Perspective Right True
Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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Children Himself Intelligence Parents
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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Children Doubt Thinking Tragedy
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
An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
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Doubt Doubtful Faith Religious
Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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Dangerous Education Fans Religious Source
Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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Heroes Idol One Liner
Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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Himself Lying Need
Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
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Case Lawyer Lose Myself Win
I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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Kill Myself Notice Reading Satisfaction
Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.
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Accustom Death Horror Man Thinking
I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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Believe God Mom Myself
For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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Judgement Leaving Room Understand
Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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Book Hope Myself Royal Writing
Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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Freedom Human Institution Law

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

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