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The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.

Clarence Darrow

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 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
Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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Bad Habit People Work Worst
Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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Born Greatness Man
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
If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Laughter Lose Power Thinking Yourself
There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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Contentment Kill Sick
My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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Constitution Laws Myself
We’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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Heart Kill Life Notice Satisfaction
The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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Children Live Ourselves Parents Ruin
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
Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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Fight Oneself Reason
None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Hero Honesty Life
The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
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Beginning Death Fear God Investigation Study Wisdom
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
Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.
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Conflict Fight Forever Liberty Man Obligation Preservation Tolerance
It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
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Bad Cruelty Fear Goodness Himself People Punishment
Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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Happiness Laughter People Religion Yourself
Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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Brain Jealous Liberty Man Soul
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means.
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Compliment Ignorance Insult Man Myself Pretend
Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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Action Emotion Government Human
I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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Myself Surprise Wrong
Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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Greatness Money Touch
Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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Himself Lying Need
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
In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
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Choice Content Eat Judgment Leadership Life Oneself
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

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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