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.
CLARENCE DARROWThe purpose of life is to live it.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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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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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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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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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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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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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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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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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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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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