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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.

Clarence Darrow

I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
CLARENCE DARROW

Kill Myself Notice Reading Satisfaction
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 Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.
CLARENCE DARROW

Defend Delusion Land Strong Weakness
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
One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
CLARENCE DARROW

Form Life Live Oneself Philosophy
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 am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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Friendship Man Oneself Work
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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Hate Injustice Land Patriot True
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
Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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Born Greatness Man
We’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
CLARENCE DARROW

Heart Kill Life Notice Satisfaction
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 knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.
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Distribution Fact Greatness Honesty Man Money Myself Question
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
It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
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Class Community Domination Law Myself Natural Protection Remember
If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Laughter Lose Power Thinking Yourself

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