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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

Clarence Darrow

The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
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Ability Bravery Coward Greatness Life Physical Strength
A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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Capital Cooperation Criminal
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
The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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Better Fight Himself Man
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
Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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Himself Lying Need
In 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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God Immortal Man Personal Production
I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
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Face Greatness Growth Lonely Myself Opinion Stand
Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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Happiness Laughter People Religion Yourself
There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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Contentment Kill Sick
There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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Action Crime Thinking
In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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Enough Freedom Necessary Order
We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
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Close Important Life Man Wonderful
Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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Born Control Myself People Remember
History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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History Oneself Repeat
Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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Action Emotion Government Human

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