There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
CLARENCE DARROWChase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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In 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.
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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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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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The law is a horrible business.
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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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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
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As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
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I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor – anybody can do that – but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.
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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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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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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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