History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
CLARENCE DARROWWhen I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
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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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You can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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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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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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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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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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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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The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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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.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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