Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
CLARENCE DARROWWorking people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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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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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 first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.
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Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.
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