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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.

Clarence Darrow

Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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Happiness Laughter People Religion Yourself
Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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Action Emotion Government Human
I am simply an agnostic. I haven’t yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don’t know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
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Exploration Opportunity Run Simplicity Time
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
I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.
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Distribution Fact Greatness Honesty Man Money Myself Question
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
Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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Fight Oneself Reason
The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
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Defect Exception Intelligence Reality
Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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Children Fit Live Mercy
Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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Freedom Human Institution Law
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
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.
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Choice Content Eat Judgment Leadership Life Oneself
Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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Children Himself Intelligence Parents
Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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Himself Lying Need
Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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Justice Politics Room
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

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