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We’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.

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
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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Greatness Idea Monument
Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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Born Control Myself People Remember
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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Hate Injustice Land Patriot True
I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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Believe Goodness Mom Myself
I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
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Face Greatness Growth Lonely Myself Opinion Stand
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
We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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Blank Forever Home Live Man Prison
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
Chase after the truth like all hell.
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Chase Hell One Liner Truth
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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Fear Loyalty Nation Togetherness
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
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
The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog – to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.
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Death Himself Man Purpose
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
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 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
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
The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
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Ability Bravery Coward Greatness Life Physical Strength
If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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Happiness Himself Man Wrong
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
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
There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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Errors Evil Soul Truth
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 truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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Black Freckle Man Truth White
One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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Form Life Live Oneself Philosophy

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