The law is a horrible business.
CLARENCE DARROW
Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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The law is a horrible business.
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I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
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I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor – anybody can do that – but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.
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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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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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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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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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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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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 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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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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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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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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