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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.

Clarence Darrow

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.
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Earth Existence Feeling Himself Home Man
My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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Constitution Laws Myself
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
Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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Greatness Money Touch
One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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Form Life Live Oneself Philosophy
We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
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Close Important Life Man Wonderful
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
Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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Dangerous Education Fans Religious Source
To think is to differ.
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Difference One Liner Thinking
The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
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Best Common Friendship Help Kind Passenger
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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Hate Injustice Land Patriot True
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
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 audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.
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Audience Compare Death Life Public Reality Small Theatre
I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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Believe Goodness Mom Myself
The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
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Coward Discover Easy Ideas Immortal Life Origin

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