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

Clarence Darrow

Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
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Custom Ideas Law Old Ourselves Responsibility
I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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Death Happiness Myself Notice Reading
The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
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Doubt Natural Opinion Part Strong World
Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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Dangerous Education Fans Religious Source
If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Laughter Lose Power Thinking Yourself
No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
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Citizenship Determination Goodness Law Man Worth
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
Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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Children Himself Intelligence Parents
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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Offense Oppression Severe Visit
I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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Believe God Mom Myself
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
An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
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Doubt Doubtful Faith Religious
The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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Life Live Purpose Woman
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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Hate Injustice Land Patriot True
One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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Form Life Live Oneself Philosophy
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

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