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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

Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
CLARENCE DARROW

Law Poet Wreck
Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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Fight Oneself Reason
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
Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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Believe Document Human Personal
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
Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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Belief Future God Life Myself Religion
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
Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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Love Obedience Subject
There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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Action Crime Thinking
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
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
History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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History Oneself Repeat
If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Laughter Lose Power Thinking Yourself
I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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Cruelty Myself Right Suspicious
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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Offense Oppression Severe Visit
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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Hate Injustice Land Patriot True
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
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
There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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Errors Evil Soul 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
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
Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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Freedom Human Institution Law
Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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Forget Jury Lost Win
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 law is a horrible business.
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Business Horrible One Liner
I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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Believe Goodness Mom Myself

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

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