I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
CLARENCE DARROWI don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.
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Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.
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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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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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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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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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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
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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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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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