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

Clarence Darrow

It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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Children Greatness Misfortune Opportunity Rich
Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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Freedom Human Institution Law
It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
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Class Community Domination Law Myself Natural Protection Remember
Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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Children Himself Intelligence Parents
Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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Forget Jury Lost Win
None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Hero Honesty Life
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
Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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Born Control Myself People Remember
In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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Enough Freedom Necessary Order
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
Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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Law Poet Wreck
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
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 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
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
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

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

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