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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.

Clarence Darrow

Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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Believe Document Human Personal
All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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Death Emotion Greatness Man Reading Satisfaction Strong
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
If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Laughter Lose Power Thinking Yourself
Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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Fight Oneself Reason
My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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Constitution Laws Myself
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
In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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Enough Freedom Necessary Order
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 am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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Myself Surprise Wrong
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
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
Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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Action Emotion Government Human
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
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
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
Chase after the truth like all hell.
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Chase Hell One Liner Truth
It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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Oneself Origin Teaching Theory
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
For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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Judgement Leaving Room Understand
The trouble with law is lawyers.
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Law Lawyer Trouble
In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
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God Immortal Man Personal Production
The law is a horrible business.
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Business Horrible One Liner
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
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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Battle Fight Life Live Myself Oppression Poor Power Weakness
We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
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Close Important Life Man Wonderful

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