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No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.

Clarence Darrow

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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Greatness Idea Monument
It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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Oneself Origin Teaching Theory
Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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Law Poet Wreck
There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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Contentment Kill Sick
You can only be free if I am free.
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Freedom Myself One Liner
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
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
Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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Forget Jury Lost Win
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
I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.
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Food Hate Myself Opinion
The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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Better Fight Himself Man
To think is to differ.
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Difference One Liner Thinking
One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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Form Life Live Oneself Philosophy
Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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Action Emotion Government Human
The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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Children Confidence Difference Limitation Man Youth
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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Business Funny Honesty Law Pretend
Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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Chase Freedom Hell Touch Truth Yourself
Chase after the truth like all hell.
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Chase Hell One Liner Truth
Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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Heroes Idol One Liner
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
The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs.
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Accomplishment Nation Path People Tax Willing Wrong
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
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
I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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Believe God Mom Myself
Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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Born Greatness Man
If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
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Better Education Human Improvement Man Social
Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
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Dreams Fact Forever Imagination Perspective Right True

No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.

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