We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
CLARENCE DARROWThe objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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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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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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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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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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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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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
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