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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.

Clarence Darrow

Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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Dangerous Education Fans Religious Source
The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.
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Object Past Raise Rebel Voice World
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
There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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Contentment Kill Sick
I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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Cruelty Myself Right Suspicious
None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Hero Honesty Life
I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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Believe God Mom Myself
In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
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Choice Content Eat Judgment Leadership Life Oneself
Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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Born Control Myself People Remember
Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.
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Animal Death Emotion Enjoyment Hate Help
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
Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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Home Knowledge Mad Mindset Possession Thinking
The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.
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Defend Delusion Land Strong Weakness
Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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Contemplation Conversation Cultivation Silence
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
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

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