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

Clarence Darrow

It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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Oneself Origin Teaching Theory
The law is a horrible business.
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Business Horrible One Liner
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
Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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Love Obedience Subject
The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs.
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Accomplishment Nation Path People Tax Willing Wrong
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
No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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Fear Loyalty Nation Togetherness
A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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Capital Cooperation Criminal
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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Greatness Idea Monument
I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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Myself Surprise Wrong
Chase after the truth like all hell.
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Chase Hell One Liner Truth
To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder and doubt and guess.
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Doubt Explanation Mystery Origin Question Universe
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
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
The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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Life Live Purpose Woman
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

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