The purpose of life is to live it.
CLARENCE DARROWIn life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
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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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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The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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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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It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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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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To think is to differ.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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