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The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog – to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.

Clarence Darrow

Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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Clothes Fit Law People Service
Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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Children Himself Intelligence Parents
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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Doubt Doubtful Faith Religious
A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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Capital Cooperation Criminal
History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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History Oneself Repeat
Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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Love Obedience Subject
We’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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Heart Kill Life Notice Satisfaction
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
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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Custom Ideas Law Old Ourselves Responsibility
In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
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Choice Content Eat Judgment Leadership Life Oneself
Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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Heroes Idol One Liner
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
I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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Friendship Man Oneself Work
There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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Action Crime Thinking
To think is to differ.
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Difference One Liner Thinking
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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Conflict Fight Forever Liberty Man Obligation Preservation Tolerance

The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog – to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.

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