Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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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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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.
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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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To think is to differ.
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I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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The law is a horrible business.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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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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The purpose of life is to live it.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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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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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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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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