Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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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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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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You can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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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.
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The 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.
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Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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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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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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You can only be free if I am free.
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