The purpose of life is to live it.
CLARENCE DARROWChase after the truth like all hell.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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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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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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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
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It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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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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