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.
CLARENCE DARROWThe truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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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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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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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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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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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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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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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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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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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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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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I am simply an agnostic. I haven’t yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don’t know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
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