I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.
CLARENCE DARROWLost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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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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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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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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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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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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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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