The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
CLARENCE DARROWIf a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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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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As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
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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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I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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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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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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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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