The purpose of life is to live it.
CLARENCE DARROWTo 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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I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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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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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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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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I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog – to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
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Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
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