Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
CLARENCE DARROWWhenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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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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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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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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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder and doubt and guess.
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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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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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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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