Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
CLARENCE DARROWEverybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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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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I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.
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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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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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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 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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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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In 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.
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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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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
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