All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed anyone, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

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"I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of."

- Clarence Darrow

Awareness

"True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else."

- Clarence Darrow

Belief

"You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom. You can only be free if I am free."

- Clarence Darrow

Belief

"I am a friend of the workingman, and I would rather be his friend than be one."

- Clarence Darrow

Compassion

"Working people have a lot of bad habits, but the worst of those is work."

- Clarence Darrow

Happiness

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"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

Adversity

"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

- Epicurus

Adversity

"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Adversity

"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."

- Jesse Owens

Adversity

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

Adversity