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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.

Clarence Darrow

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
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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Offense Oppression Severe Visit
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
The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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Brain Creation Money Truth
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
Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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Heroes Idol One Liner
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
Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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Action Emotion Government Human
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
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
Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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Dangerous Education Fans Religious Source
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
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
It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
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Class Community Domination Law Myself Natural Protection Remember
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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Citizenship Determination Goodness Law Man Worth
Chase after the truth like all hell.
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Chase Hell One Liner Truth

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