Clarence Darrow Quotes

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Clarence Darrow

Profession : Lawyer

Birth : April 18, 1857

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

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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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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.

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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.

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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.

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To think is to differ.

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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.

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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

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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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I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

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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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Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.

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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.

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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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None meet life honestly and few heroically.

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The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.

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