Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
CLARENCE DARROWEven if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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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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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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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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Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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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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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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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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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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