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I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.

Clarence Darrow

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
CLARENCE DARROW

Beginning Believe Myself President
Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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Born Control Myself People Remember
There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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Action Crime Thinking
I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.
CLARENCE DARROW

Food Hate Myself Opinion
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
Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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Heroes Idol One Liner
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 do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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Believe Goodness Mom Myself
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
There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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Errors Evil Soul Truth
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
We’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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Heart Kill Life Notice Satisfaction
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
Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
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Custom Ideas Law Old Ourselves Responsibility
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.
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Beginning Death Fear God Investigation Study Wisdom
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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Animal Death Emotion Enjoyment Hate Help
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
One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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Form Life Live Oneself Philosophy
Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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Children Himself Intelligence Parents
For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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Judgement Leaving Room Understand
I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
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Face Greatness Growth Lonely Myself Opinion Stand
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
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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Greatness Idea Monument
Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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Dangerous Education Fans Religious Source
Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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Clothes Fit Law People Service
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
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

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