I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
CLARENCE DARROWWe know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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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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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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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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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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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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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
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An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
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