There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
CLARENCE DARROWIn 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
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Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.
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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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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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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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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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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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