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

Clarence Darrow

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
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
Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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Justice Politics Room
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
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
A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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Capital Cooperation Criminal
Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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Poor Rich Trial
I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.
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Food Hate Myself Opinion
To think is to differ.
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Difference One Liner Thinking
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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Greatness Idea Monument
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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Conflict Fight Forever Liberty Man Obligation Preservation Tolerance
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
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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Children Doubt Thinking Tragedy
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
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 a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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Friendship Man Oneself Work

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