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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.

Clarence Darrow

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
The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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Case Jury Law Reality
The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
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Beginning Death Fear God Investigation Study Wisdom
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
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
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
The law is a horrible business.
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Business Horrible One Liner
One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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Form Life Live Oneself Philosophy
Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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Born Control Myself People Remember
If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
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Better Education Human Improvement Man Social
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
None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Hero Honesty Life
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
Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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Action Emotion Government Human
Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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Chase Freedom Hell Touch Truth Yourself
Chase after the truth like all hell.
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Chase Hell One Liner Truth

Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.

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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.

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