Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
CLARENCE DARROWLaws 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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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
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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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Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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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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The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog – to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.
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