In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
CLARENCE DARROWThere is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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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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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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I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor – anybody can do that – but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.
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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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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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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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The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
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