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

Clarence Darrow

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
Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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Children Himself Intelligence Parents
Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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Justice Politics Room
Chase after the truth like all hell.
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Chase Hell One Liner Truth
If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Laughter Lose Power Thinking Yourself
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
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
Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.
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Accustom Death Horror Man Thinking
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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Correct Learning Speak Talk Yourself
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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Greatness Idea Monument
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
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
Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
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Case Lawyer Lose Myself Win
The trouble with law is lawyers.
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Law Lawyer Trouble
Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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Born Greatness Man
The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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Children Live Ourselves Parents Ruin

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