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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.

Clarence Darrow

I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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Cruelty Myself Right Suspicious
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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Children Doubt Thinking Tragedy
It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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Children Greatness Misfortune Opportunity Rich
To think is to differ.
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Difference One Liner Thinking
My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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Constitution Laws Myself
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 truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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Brain Creation Money Truth
There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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Action Crime Thinking
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
I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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Believe Goodness Mom Myself
The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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Black Freckle Man Truth White
It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
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Bad Cruelty Fear Goodness Himself People Punishment
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
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
Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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Fight Oneself Reason
History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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History Oneself Repeat

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