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I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.

Clarence Darrow

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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Children Live Ourselves Parents Ruin
I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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Myself Surprise Wrong
The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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Children Confidence Difference Limitation Man Youth
The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
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Coward Discover Easy Ideas Immortal Life Origin
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
If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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Happiness Himself Man Wrong
Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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Happiness Laughter People Religion Yourself
I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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Death Happiness Myself Notice Reading
If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Laughter Lose Power Thinking Yourself
There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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Action Crime Thinking
I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
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Hell Myself Suffering Understand
Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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Contemplation Conversation Cultivation Silence
Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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Bad Habit People Work Worst
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
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
Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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Law Poet Wreck

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