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Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.

Clarence Darrow

Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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Dangerous Education Fans Religious Source
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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Greatness Idea Monument
A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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Capital Cooperation Criminal
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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Children Doubt Thinking Tragedy
History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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History Oneself Repeat
Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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Bad Habit People Work Worst
The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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Afflict Comfortable Compassionate Human
Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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Brain Jealous Liberty Man Soul
The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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Children Confidence Difference Limitation Man Youth
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
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
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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Hate Injustice Land Patriot True
There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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Action Crime Thinking
The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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Brain Creation Money Truth
I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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Believe God Mom Myself
I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.
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Afraid Devil God Man Universe Woman
My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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Constitution Laws Myself
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
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
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
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
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
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
Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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Poor Rich Trial
One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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Form Life Live Oneself Philosophy
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
I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor – anybody can do that – but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.
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Battle Fight Life Live Myself Oppression Poor Power Weakness

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