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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.

Clarence Darrow

Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
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Dreams Fact Forever Imagination Perspective Right True
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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Freedom Liberty Man Myself Protection
A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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Capital Cooperation Criminal
Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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Home Knowledge Mad Mindset Possession Thinking
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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Business Funny Honesty Law Pretend
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
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 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
Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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Himself Lying Need
Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.
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Accustom Death Horror Man Thinking
There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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Action Crime Thinking
You can only be free if I am free.
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Freedom Myself One Liner
My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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Constitution Laws Myself
Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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Children Himself Intelligence Parents
There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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Errors Evil Soul Truth
Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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Action Emotion Government Human

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