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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.

Clarence Darrow

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
CLARENCE DARROW

Brain Jealous Liberty Man Soul
Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
CLARENCE DARROW

Poor Rich Trial
Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.
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Animal Death Emotion Enjoyment Hate Help
None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Hero Honesty Life
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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Hate Injustice Land Patriot True
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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Best Common Friendship Help Kind Passenger
Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
CLARENCE DARROW

Kill Murder Notice Potential Reading Satisfaction
There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.
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Crime Evil God Goodness Human Race Sin
Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.
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Condition Conservative Effort Improvement Man Reaction War
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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Afraid Devil God Man Universe Woman
Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
CLARENCE DARROW

Dreams Fact Forever Imagination Perspective Right True
The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.
CLARENCE DARROW

Object Past Raise Rebel Voice World
I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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Ignorance Man Myself Pretend
For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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Judgement Leaving Room Understand
I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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Myself Surprise Wrong
Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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Book Hope Myself Royal Writing

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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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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