Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
CLARENCE DARROWThe difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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 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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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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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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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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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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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.
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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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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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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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We’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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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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I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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