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.
CLARENCE DARROWAll 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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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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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 feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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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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The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog – to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.
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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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