Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
CLARENCE DARROWOne cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
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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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I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.
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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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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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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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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor – anybody can do that – but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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