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Clarence Darrow

Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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Ancestor Born Follow Life Mean Rebel
I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.
CLARENCE DARROW

Food Hate Myself Opinion
Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.
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Accustom Death Horror Man Thinking
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
CLARENCE DARROW

Beginning Believe Myself President
I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
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Face Greatness Growth Lonely Myself Opinion Stand
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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Case Lawyer Lose Myself Win
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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End Human Important Method Place Society
Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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Action Emotion Government Human
Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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Dangerous Education Fans Religious Source
Chase after the truth like all hell.
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Chase Hell One Liner Truth
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
I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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Believe God Mom Myself
The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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Afflict Comfortable Compassionate Human
I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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Death Happiness Myself Notice Reading
It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
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Bad Cruelty Fear Goodness Himself People Punishment
History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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History Oneself Repeat

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