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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

Clarence Darrow

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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Children Greatness Misfortune Opportunity Rich
None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Hero Honesty Life
Chase after the truth like all hell.
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Chase Hell One Liner Truth
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
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
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
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
Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.
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Condition Conservative Effort Improvement Man Reaction War
One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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Form Life Live Oneself Philosophy
Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
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Dreams Fact Forever Imagination Perspective Right True
Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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Fight Oneself Reason
Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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Dangerous Education Fans Religious Source
The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
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Doubt Natural Opinion Part Strong World
History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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History Oneself Repeat
Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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Book Hope Myself Royal Writing
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 law is a horrible business.
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Business Horrible One Liner
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
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
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
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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Freedom Liberty Man Myself Protection
Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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Poor Rich Trial
I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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Earth Existence Feeling Himself Home Man
Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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Kill Murder Notice Potential Reading Satisfaction
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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Doubt Explanation Mystery Origin Question Universe
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
We’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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Heart Kill Life Notice Satisfaction

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