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I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

Clarence Darrow

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
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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Home Knowledge Mad Mindset Possession Thinking
Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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Forget Jury Lost Win
We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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Blank Forever Home Live Man Prison
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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Greatness Idea Monument
The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.
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Defend Delusion Land Strong Weakness
Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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Greatness Money Touch
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
I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.
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Distribution Fact Greatness Honesty Man Money Myself Question
The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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Life Live Purpose Woman
I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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Death Happiness Myself Notice Reading
The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.
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Audience Compare Death Life Public Reality Small Theatre
I 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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Earth Existence Feeling Himself Home Man
Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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Himself Lying Need
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
Chase after the truth like all hell.
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Chase Hell One Liner Truth
There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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Errors Evil Soul Truth
Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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Born Control Myself People Remember
The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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Afflict Comfortable Compassionate Human
Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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Fight Oneself Reason
Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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Freedom Human Institution Law
Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.
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Condition Conservative Effort Improvement Man Reaction War
You can only be free if I am free.
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Freedom Myself One Liner
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
Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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Children Fit Live Mercy
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
Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.
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End Environment Important Lesson Life Live Relation

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

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