I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
CLARENCE DARROWIn spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
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Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.
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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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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.
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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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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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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.
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