No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
CLARENCE DARROWAn agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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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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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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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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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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You can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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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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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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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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