The purpose of life is to live it.
CLARENCE DARROWNone meet life honestly and few heroically.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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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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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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Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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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 am simply an agnostic. I haven’t yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don’t know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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