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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.

Clarence Darrow

I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
CLARENCE DARROW

Beginning Doubt Fear Feeling Myself Wisdom
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.
CLARENCE DARROW

God Immortal Man Personal Production
The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
CLARENCE DARROW

Afflict Comfortable Compassionate Human
Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
CLARENCE DARROW

Clothes Fit Law People Service
I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
CLARENCE DARROW

Cruelty Myself Right Suspicious
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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Ancestor Born Follow Life Mean Rebel
Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
CLARENCE DARROW

Happiness Laughter People Religion Yourself
I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.
CLARENCE DARROW

Distribution Fact Greatness Honesty Man Money Myself Question
I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
CLARENCE DARROW

Believe God Mom Myself
Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
CLARENCE DARROW

Law Poet Wreck
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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Doubt Explanation Mystery Origin Question Universe
Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
CLARENCE DARROW

Fight Oneself Reason
If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
CLARENCE DARROW

Happiness Himself Man Wrong
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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Better Education Human Improvement Man Social
The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
CLARENCE DARROW

Case Jury Law Reality
There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
CLARENCE DARROW

Contentment Kill Sick

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