Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
CLARENCE DARROWWe know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
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Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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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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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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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder and doubt and guess.
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The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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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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Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
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You can only be free if I am free.
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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs.
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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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