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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.

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
There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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Errors Evil Soul Truth
Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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Forget Jury Lost Win
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
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
I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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Friendship Man Oneself Work
The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
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Ability Bravery Coward Greatness Life Physical Strength
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
If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Laughter Lose Power Thinking Yourself
I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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Cruelty Myself Right Suspicious
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
To think is to differ.
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Difference One Liner Thinking
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
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
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 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

Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.

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