One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
CLARENCE DARROW
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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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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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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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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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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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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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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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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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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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