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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.

Clarence Darrow

The purpose of life is to live it.
CLARENCE DARROW

Life Live One Liner Purpose
The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
CLARENCE DARROW

Defect Exception Intelligence Reality
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means.
CLARENCE DARROW

Compliment Ignorance Insult Man Myself Pretend
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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Battle Fight Life Live Myself Oppression Poor Power Weakness
The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
CLARENCE DARROW

Afflict Comfortable Compassionate Human
Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
CLARENCE DARROW

Himself Lying Need
Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
CLARENCE DARROW

Children Himself Intelligence Parents
There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
CLARENCE DARROW

Action Crime Thinking
I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
CLARENCE DARROW

Myself Surprise Wrong
I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
CLARENCE DARROW

Death Happiness Myself Notice Reading
I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
CLARENCE DARROW

Ignorance Man Myself Pretend
Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
CLARENCE DARROW

Contemplation Conversation Cultivation Silence
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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Ancestor Born Follow Life Mean Rebel
Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
CLARENCE DARROW

Belief Future God Life Myself Religion
I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.
CLARENCE DARROW

Afraid Devil God Man Universe Woman
Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
CLARENCE DARROW

Brain Jealous Liberty Man Soul

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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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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