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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.

Clarence Darrow

Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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Dangerous Education Fans Religious Source
I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
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Hell Myself Suffering Understand
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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Compliment Ignorance Insult Man Myself Pretend
The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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Children Live Ourselves Parents Ruin
I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.
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Afraid Devil God Man Universe Woman
The law is a horrible business.
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Business Horrible One Liner
The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
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Defect Exception Intelligence Reality
I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
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Face Greatness Growth Lonely Myself Opinion Stand
A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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Capital Cooperation Criminal
Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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Action Emotion Government Human
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
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
Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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Home Knowledge Mad Mindset Possession Thinking
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
None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Hero Honesty Life
Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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Love Obedience Subject

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