History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
CLARENCE DARROWLaws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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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 law is a horrible business.
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There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.
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I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.
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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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Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
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Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.
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To think is to differ.
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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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You can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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