None meet life honestly and few heroically.
CLARENCE DARROWJust think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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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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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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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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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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