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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.

Clarence Darrow

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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Children Doubt Thinking Tragedy
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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God Immortal Man Personal Production
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
Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
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Custom Ideas Law Old Ourselves Responsibility
You can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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End Human Important Method Place Society
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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Better Education Human Improvement Man Social
To think is to differ.
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Difference One Liner Thinking
There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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Contentment Kill Sick
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
Chase after the truth like all hell.
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Chase Hell One Liner Truth
Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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Fight Oneself Reason
Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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Born Greatness Man
The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.
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Defend Delusion Land Strong Weakness
The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.
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Audience Compare Death Life Public Reality Small Theatre
The trouble with law is lawyers.
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Law Lawyer Trouble
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

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