If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
CLARENCE DARROWPhysical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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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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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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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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I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.
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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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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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I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.
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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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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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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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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.
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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
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