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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.

Clarence Darrow

Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.
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Conflict Fight Forever Liberty Man Obligation Preservation Tolerance
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
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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Defend Delusion Land Strong Weakness
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
To think is to differ.
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Difference One Liner Thinking
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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Hate Injustice Land Patriot True
Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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Happiness Laughter People Religion Yourself
Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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Himself Lying Need
Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.
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Accustom Death Horror Man Thinking
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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Children Doubt Thinking Tragedy
A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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Capital Cooperation Criminal
It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
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Bad Cruelty Fear Goodness Himself People Punishment
All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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Death Emotion Greatness Man Reading Satisfaction Strong
I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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Believe God Mom Myself
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means.
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Compliment Ignorance Insult Man Myself Pretend
None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Hero Honesty Life

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