The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
CLARENCE DARROWThe purpose of life is to live it.
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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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The law is a horrible business.
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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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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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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I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
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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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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
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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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I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
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The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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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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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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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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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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