In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
CLARENCE DARROWThose 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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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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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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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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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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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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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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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
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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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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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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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The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
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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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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
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