The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
CLARENCE DARROWI feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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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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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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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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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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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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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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