For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
CLARENCE DARROWThe truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
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I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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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 truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
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