Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
CLARENCE DARROWNothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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I am simply an agnostic. I haven’t yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don’t know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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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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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.
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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 never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog – to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.
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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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