An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
CLARENCE DARROWThe origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
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To think is to differ.
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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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Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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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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The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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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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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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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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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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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.
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You can only be free if I am free.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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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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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
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