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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.

Clarence Darrow

There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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Contentment Kill Sick
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
Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
CLARENCE DARROW

Chase Freedom Hell Touch Truth Yourself
No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
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Citizenship Determination Goodness Law Man Worth
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
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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Hate Injustice Land Patriot True
Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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Ancestor Born Follow Life Mean Rebel
The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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Modern Safety Time Truth Voice
Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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Bad Habit People Work Worst
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
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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Object Past Raise Rebel Voice World
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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Children Doubt Thinking Tragedy
I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
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Beginning Doubt Fear Feeling Myself Wisdom
I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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Believe God Mom Myself
The trouble with law is lawyers.
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Law Lawyer Trouble
Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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Greatness Money Touch

It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.

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