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I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

Clarence Darrow

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
Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
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Charity Hate Misfortune Revenge
To think is to differ.
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Difference One Liner Thinking
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
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
The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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Afflict Comfortable Compassionate Human
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 am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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Cruelty Myself Right Suspicious
Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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Forget Jury Lost Win
My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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Constitution Laws Myself
Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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Happiness Laughter People Religion Yourself
Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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Kill Murder Notice Potential Reading Satisfaction
It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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Oneself Origin Teaching Theory
History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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History Oneself Repeat
Chase after the truth like all hell.
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Chase Hell One Liner Truth
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

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

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