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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.

Clarence Darrow

Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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Happiness Laughter People Religion Yourself
None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Hero Honesty Life
If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Laughter Lose Power Thinking Yourself
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
Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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Ancestor Born Follow Life Mean Rebel
Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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Brain Jealous Liberty Man Soul
Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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Himself Lying Need
Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
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Charity Hate Misfortune Revenge
Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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Belief Future God Life Myself Religion
I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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Death Happiness Myself Notice Reading
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
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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Correct Learning Speak Talk Yourself
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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Best Common Friendship Help Kind Passenger
I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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Cruelty Myself Right Suspicious
I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
CLARENCE DARROW

Believe God Mom Myself
Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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Bad Habit People Work Worst

Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.

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