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Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.

Clarence Darrow

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
The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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Life Live Purpose Woman
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
There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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Action Crime Thinking
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
The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
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Coward Discover Easy Ideas Immortal Life Origin
Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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Believe Document Human Personal
To think is to differ.
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Difference One Liner Thinking
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
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
The purpose of life is to live it.
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Life Live One Liner Purpose
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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Greatness Idea Monument
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
Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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Children Fit Live Mercy
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 always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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Cruelty Myself Right Suspicious

Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.

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