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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

Clarence Darrow

I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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Believe God Mom Myself
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
I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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Believe Goodness Mom Myself
Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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Happiness Laughter People Religion Yourself
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
We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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Blank Forever Home Live Man Prison
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
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
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
Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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Law Poet Wreck
In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
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Choice Content Eat Judgment Leadership Life Oneself
I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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Myself Surprise Wrong
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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Distribution Fact Greatness Honesty Man Money Myself Question
No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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Fear Loyalty Nation Togetherness
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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Children Doubt Thinking Tragedy

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