Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
CLARENCE DARROWThose who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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To think is to differ.
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In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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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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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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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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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.
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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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