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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.

Clarence Darrow

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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Ability Bravery Coward Greatness Life Physical Strength
There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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Action Crime Thinking
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
If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Laughter Lose Power Thinking Yourself
The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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Better Fight Himself Man
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
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 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
Chase after the truth like all hell.
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Chase Hell One Liner Truth
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
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
Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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Love Obedience Subject
In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
CLARENCE DARROW

Choice Content Eat Judgment Leadership Life Oneself
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
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
CLARENCE DARROW

Offense Oppression Severe Visit
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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Battle Fight Life Live Myself Oppression Poor Power Weakness

Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.

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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.

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