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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.

Clarence Darrow

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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Custom Ideas Law Old Ourselves Responsibility
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
One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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Form Life Live Oneself Philosophy
The purpose of life is to live it.
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Life Live One Liner Purpose
The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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Children Confidence Difference Limitation Man Youth
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
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
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
The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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Modern Safety Time Truth Voice
Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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Children Himself Intelligence Parents
I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
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Hell Myself Suffering Understand
You can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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End Human Important Method Place Society
I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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Ignorance Man Myself Pretend
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
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
Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.
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Animal Death Emotion Enjoyment Hate Help

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