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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate

Clarence Darrow

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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Errors Evil Soul Truth
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
We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
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Close Important Life Man Wonderful
Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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Himself Lying Need
If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Laughter Lose Power Thinking Yourself
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
The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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Modern Safety Time Truth Voice
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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Offense Oppression Severe Visit
The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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Better Fight Himself Man
Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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Action Emotion Government Human
I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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Cruelty Myself Right Suspicious
I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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Friendship Man Oneself Work
To think is to differ.
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Difference One Liner Thinking
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
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
Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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Contemplation Conversation Cultivation Silence
The 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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Object Past Raise Rebel Voice World
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
Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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Happiness Laughter People Religion Yourself
Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.
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Conflict Fight Forever Liberty Man Obligation Preservation Tolerance
An 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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Doubt Doubtful Faith Religious
There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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Contentment Kill Sick
Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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Civilization Scope Trial
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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Correct Learning Speak Talk Yourself
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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Better Education Human Improvement Man Social
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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Defect Exception Intelligence Reality
Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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Poor Rich Trial

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