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

Clarence Darrow

Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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Dangerous Education Fans Religious Source
Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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Fight Oneself Reason
I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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Believe Goodness Mom Myself
The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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Case Jury Law Reality
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
It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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Children Greatness Misfortune Opportunity Rich
There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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Errors Evil Soul Truth
I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.
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Food Hate Myself Opinion
Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.
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Accustom Death Horror Man Thinking
The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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Modern Safety Time Truth Voice
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
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
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Beginning Believe Myself President
The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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Afflict Comfortable Compassionate Human
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
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
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

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