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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.

Clarence Darrow

The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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Brain Creation Money Truth
Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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Contemplation Conversation Cultivation Silence
Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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Law Poet Wreck
Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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Action Emotion Government Human
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
There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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Action Crime Thinking
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
All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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Death Emotion Greatness Man Reading Satisfaction Strong
Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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Poor Rich Trial
The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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Afflict Comfortable Compassionate Human
You can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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End Human Important Method Place Society
Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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Justice Politics Room
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
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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Beginning Death Fear God Investigation Study Wisdom
To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder and doubt and guess.
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Doubt Explanation Mystery Origin Question Universe

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