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You can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.

Clarence Darrow

Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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Bad Habit People Work Worst
Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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Children Himself Intelligence Parents
Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.
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End Environment Important Lesson Life Live Relation
One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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Form Life Live Oneself Philosophy
Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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Civilization Scope Trial
Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
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Dreams Fact Forever Imagination Perspective Right True
I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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Ignorance Man Myself Pretend
As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
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Forever Object Rebel World Wrong
A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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Capital Cooperation Criminal
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
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
To think is to differ.
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Difference One Liner Thinking
Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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Home Knowledge Mad Mindset Possession Thinking
You can only be free if I am free.
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Freedom Myself One Liner
There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.
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Crime Evil God Goodness Human Race Sin
Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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Born Control Myself People Remember
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
The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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Children Confidence Difference Limitation Man Youth
The purpose of life is to live it.
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Life Live One Liner Purpose
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 trouble with law is lawyers.
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Law Lawyer Trouble
My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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Constitution Laws Myself
There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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Action Crime Thinking
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
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
Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.
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Animal Death Emotion Enjoyment Hate Help

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