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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

Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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Action Emotion Government Human
Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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Forget Jury Lost Win
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
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
You can only be free if I am free.
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Freedom Myself One Liner
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 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
My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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Constitution Laws Myself
The purpose of life is to live it.
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Life Live One Liner Purpose
I am simply an agnostic. I haven’t yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don’t know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
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Exploration Opportunity Run Simplicity Time
The law is a horrible business.
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Business Horrible One Liner
The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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Afflict Comfortable Compassionate Human
Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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Believe Document Human Personal
History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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History Oneself Repeat
The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.
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Audience Compare Death Life Public Reality Small Theatre
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
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
Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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Clothes Fit Law People Service
If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Laughter Lose Power Thinking Yourself
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 truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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Brain Creation Money Truth
Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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Dangerous Education Fans Religious Source
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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Hate Injustice Land Patriot True
Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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Contemplation Conversation Cultivation Silence
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
For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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Judgement Leaving Room Understand

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