History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
CLARENCE DARROWLife 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
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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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We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
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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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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.
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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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I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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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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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
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