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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.

Clarence Darrow

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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End Human Important Method Place Society
Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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Children Himself Intelligence Parents
The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
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Beginning Death Fear God Investigation Study Wisdom
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
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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Greatness Idea Monument
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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Doubt Natural Opinion Part Strong World
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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Audience Compare Death Life Public Reality Small Theatre
Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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Clothes Fit Law People Service
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
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Beginning Believe Myself President
The purpose of life is to live it.
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Life Live One Liner Purpose
I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.
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Afraid Devil God Man Universe Woman
To think is to differ.
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Difference One Liner Thinking
The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs.
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Accomplishment Nation Path People Tax Willing Wrong
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
Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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Love Obedience Subject
For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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Judgement Leaving Room Understand

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