None meet life honestly and few heroically.
CLARENCE DARROWThe origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
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Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
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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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I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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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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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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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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