One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
CLARENCE DARROWThe trouble with law is lawyers.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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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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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs.
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We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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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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