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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.

Clarence Darrow

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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Children Doubt Thinking Tragedy
There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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Contentment Kill Sick
Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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Contemplation Conversation Cultivation Silence
Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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Born Control Myself People Remember
We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
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Close Important Life Man Wonderful
The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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Brain Creation Money Truth
The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog – to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.
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Death Himself Man Purpose
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
Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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Children Himself Intelligence Parents
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
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
If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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Happiness Himself Man Wrong
An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
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Doubt Doubtful Faith Religious
Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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Action Emotion Government Human
The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.
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Audience Compare Death Life Public Reality Small Theatre
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

There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.

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