Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
CLARENCE DARROWI never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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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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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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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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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 really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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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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