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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.

Clarence Darrow

Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
CLARENCE DARROW

Born Greatness Man
Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.
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End Environment Important Lesson Life Live Relation
Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
CLARENCE DARROW

Book Hope Myself Royal Writing
Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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Civilization Scope Trial
Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
CLARENCE DARROW

Law Poet Wreck
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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Animal Death Emotion Enjoyment Hate Help
I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
CLARENCE DARROW

Believe Goodness Mom Myself
No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
CLARENCE DARROW

Citizenship Determination Goodness Law Man Worth
The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.
CLARENCE DARROW

Defend Delusion Land Strong Weakness
Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
CLARENCE DARROW

Fight Oneself Reason
Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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Children Himself Intelligence Parents
Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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Children Fit Live Mercy
The purpose of life is to live it.
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Life Live One Liner Purpose
Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
CLARENCE DARROW

Charity Hate Misfortune Revenge
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
CLARENCE DARROW

Correct Learning Speak Talk Yourself
Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
CLARENCE DARROW

Custom Ideas Law Old Ourselves Responsibility

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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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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