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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.

Clarence Darrow

History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
CLARENCE DARROW

History Oneself Repeat
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
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
There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.
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Crime Evil God Goodness Human Race Sin
Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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Himself Lying Need
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
We’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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Heart Kill Life Notice Satisfaction
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
Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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Love Obedience Subject
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means.
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Compliment Ignorance Insult Man Myself Pretend
I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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Believe God Mom Myself
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 am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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Ignorance Man Myself Pretend
If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Laughter Lose Power Thinking Yourself
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
There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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Action Crime Thinking

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