Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
CLARENCE DARROWI do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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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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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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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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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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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
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I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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To think is to differ.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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We’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
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