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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 have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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Kill Myself Notice Reading Satisfaction
Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.
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Animal Death Emotion Enjoyment Hate Help
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
Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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Love Obedience Subject
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
The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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Afflict Comfortable Compassionate Human
Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.
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End Environment Important Lesson Life Live Relation
Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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Happiness Laughter People Religion Yourself
I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
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Beginning Doubt Fear Feeling Myself Wisdom
Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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Brain Jealous Liberty Man Soul
Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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Belief Future God Life Myself Religion
The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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Case Jury Law Reality
Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
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Case Lawyer Lose Myself Win
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
If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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Happiness Himself Man Wrong
Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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Justice Politics Room
Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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Fight Oneself Reason
The law is a horrible business.
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Business Horrible One Liner
Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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Chase Freedom Hell Touch Truth Yourself
The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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Brain Creation Money Truth
Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
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Custom Ideas Law Old Ourselves Responsibility
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
Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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Book Hope Myself Royal Writing
One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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Form Life Live Oneself Philosophy
Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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Born Greatness Man
It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
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Class Community Domination Law Myself Natural Protection Remember
Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
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Charity Hate Misfortune Revenge

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