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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.

Clarence Darrow

No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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Fear Loyalty Nation Togetherness
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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Forever Object Rebel World Wrong
I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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Believe God Mom Myself
Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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Belief Future God Life Myself Religion
Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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Love Obedience Subject
The purpose of life is to live it.
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Life Live One Liner Purpose
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
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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Greatness Idea Monument
We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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Blank Forever Home Live Man Prison
It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
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Bad Cruelty Fear Goodness Himself People Punishment
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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Death Himself Man Purpose
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
Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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Children Fit Live Mercy
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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Children Doubt Thinking Tragedy
I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
CLARENCE DARROW

Earth Existence Feeling Himself Home Man

One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.

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