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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.

Clarence Darrow

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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Children Doubt Thinking Tragedy
The purpose of life is to live it.
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Life Live One Liner Purpose
I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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Kill Myself Notice Reading Satisfaction
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
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
History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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History Oneself Repeat
Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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Believe Document Human Personal
Chase after the truth like all hell.
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Chase Hell One Liner Truth
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
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
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
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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Correct Learning Speak Talk Yourself
Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
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Charity Hate Misfortune Revenge
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 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
Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.
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Accustom Death Horror Man Thinking
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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Freedom Liberty Man Myself Protection
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
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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Food Hate Myself Opinion
My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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Constitution Laws Myself
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
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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Beginning Doubt Fear Feeling Myself Wisdom
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
Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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Born Greatness Man
Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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Fight Oneself Reason
The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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Brain Creation Money Truth
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

No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.

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