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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.

Clarence Darrow

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.
CLARENCE DARROW

End Environment Important Lesson Life Live Relation
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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Earth Existence Feeling Himself Home Man
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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Children Doubt Thinking Tragedy
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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Defect Exception Intelligence Reality
Chase after the truth like all hell.
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Chase Hell One Liner Truth
We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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Blank Forever Home Live Man Prison
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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Heart Kill Life Notice Satisfaction
I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
CLARENCE DARROW

Believe Goodness Mom Myself
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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Case Lawyer Lose Myself Win
Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
CLARENCE DARROW

Book Hope Myself Royal Writing
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
I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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Ignorance Man Myself Pretend
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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Greatness Idea Monument
I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
CLARENCE DARROW

Hell Myself Suffering Understand
Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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Action Emotion Government Human
The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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Children Live Ourselves Parents Ruin

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