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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.

Clarence Darrow

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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Children Greatness Misfortune Opportunity Rich
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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Children Doubt Thinking Tragedy
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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Doubt Explanation Mystery Origin Question Universe
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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Defend Delusion Land Strong Weakness
Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
CLARENCE DARROW

Dreams Fact Forever Imagination Perspective Right True
Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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Chase Freedom Hell Touch Truth Yourself
The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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Children Confidence Difference Limitation Man Youth
The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
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Beginning Death Fear God Investigation Study Wisdom
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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Better Education Human Improvement Man Social
Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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Born Control Myself People Remember
The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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Brain Creation Money Truth
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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Home Knowledge Mad Mindset Possession Thinking
Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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Love Obedience Subject
The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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Black Freckle Man Truth White
Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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Fight Oneself Reason
The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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Better Fight Himself Man

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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