The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
CLARENCE DARROWAutobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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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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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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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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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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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.
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