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

Clarence Darrow

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
Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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Love Obedience Subject
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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Forever Object Rebel World Wrong
History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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History Oneself Repeat
The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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Black Freckle Man Truth White
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
A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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Capital Cooperation Criminal
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
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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Best Common Friendship Help Kind Passenger
Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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Law Poet Wreck
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
It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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Children Greatness Misfortune Opportunity Rich
I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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Believe Goodness Mom Myself
I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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Kill Myself Notice Reading Satisfaction
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
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
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Beginning Believe Myself President
Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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Born Control Myself People Remember
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
Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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Action Emotion Government Human
Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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Born Greatness Man
The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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Case Jury Law Reality
My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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Constitution Laws Myself
Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.
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Condition Conservative Effort Improvement Man Reaction War
I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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Myself Surprise Wrong
We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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Blank Forever Home Live Man Prison
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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Greatness Idea Monument
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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Ancestor Born Follow Life Mean Rebel

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