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I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor – anybody can do that – but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.

Clarence Darrow

One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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Form Life Live Oneself Philosophy
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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Greatness Idea Monument
We’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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Heart Kill Life Notice Satisfaction
There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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Contentment Kill Sick
I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.
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Afraid Devil God Man Universe Woman
Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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Himself Lying Need
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
If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Laughter Lose Power Thinking Yourself
Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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Heroes Idol One Liner
Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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Book Hope Myself Royal Writing
Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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Fight Oneself Reason
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
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
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 am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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Myself Surprise Wrong
The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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Case Jury Law Reality

I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor – anybody can do that – but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.

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I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor – anybody can do that – but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.

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