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

Clarence Darrow

There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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Contentment Kill Sick
As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
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Forever Object Rebel World Wrong
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
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
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Beginning Believe Myself President
Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.
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End Environment Important Lesson Life Live Relation
There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.
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Crime Evil God Goodness Human Race Sin
History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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History Oneself Repeat
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
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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Greatness Idea Monument
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
Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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Fight Oneself Reason
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
Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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Law Poet Wreck
The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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Black Freckle Man Truth White
There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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Errors Evil Soul Truth
The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs.
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Accomplishment Nation Path People Tax Willing Wrong

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

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