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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

The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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Afflict Comfortable Compassionate Human
Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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Poor Rich Trial
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 am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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Myself Surprise Wrong
The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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Modern Safety Time Truth Voice
The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
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Doubt Natural Opinion Part Strong World
The purpose of life is to live it.
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Life Live One Liner Purpose
Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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Bad Habit People Work Worst
You can only be free if I am free.
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Freedom Myself One Liner
Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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Ancestor Born Follow Life Mean Rebel
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
There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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Contentment Kill Sick
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
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
Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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Justice Politics Room
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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Forever Object Rebel World Wrong
Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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Born Control Myself People Remember
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
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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Freedom Liberty Man Myself Protection
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
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
Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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Greatness Money Touch
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
The law is a horrible business.
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Business Horrible One Liner
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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Children Doubt Thinking Tragedy
There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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Errors Evil Soul Truth
Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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Fight Oneself Reason

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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