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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

Clarence Darrow

Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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Happiness Laughter People Religion Yourself
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
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
Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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Contemplation Conversation Cultivation Silence
I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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Cruelty Myself Right Suspicious
None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Hero Honesty Life
Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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Himself Lying Need
The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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Children Live Ourselves Parents Ruin
History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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History Oneself Repeat
Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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Law Poet Wreck
We 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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Close Important Life Man Wonderful
A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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Capital Cooperation Criminal
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
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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Case Lawyer Lose Myself 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 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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Accomplishment Nation Path People Tax Willing Wrong

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