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

Clarence Darrow

Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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Belief Future God Life Myself Religion
None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Hero Honesty Life
Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.
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End Environment Important Lesson Life Live Relation
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
Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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Born Greatness Man
It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
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Class Community Domination Law Myself Natural Protection Remember
The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
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Doubt Natural Opinion Part Strong World
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
Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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Born Control Myself People Remember
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
There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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Contentment Kill Sick
Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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Forget Jury Lost Win
Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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Happiness Laughter People Religion Yourself
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means.
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Compliment Ignorance Insult Man Myself Pretend
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
The purpose of life is to live it.
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Life Live One Liner Purpose
To think is to differ.
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Difference One Liner Thinking
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
It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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Oneself Origin Teaching Theory
If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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Happiness Himself Man Wrong
I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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Earth Existence Feeling Himself Home Man
The trouble with law is lawyers.
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Law Lawyer Trouble
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
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
Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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Freedom Human Institution Law
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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Hate Injustice Land Patriot True
It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
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Bad Cruelty Fear Goodness Himself People Punishment

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