Clarence Darrow Quotes
That men should ‘turn the other cheek,’ should ‘love their enemies,’ should ‘resist not evil,’ has ever seemed fine to teach to children, to preach on Sundays, to round a period in a senseless oratorical flight; but it has been taken for granted that these sentiments cannot furnish the real foundation for strong characters or great states. p. 13
Quotes to Explore
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide these virtual nodes and instant feedback from anywhere, adding annotation around a physical places.
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
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When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection.
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Anybody that has had a brush with what feels like undiluted evil often ends up asking themselves the same questions - whether it's something that was a consequence of their own actions or actions that were taken against them or actions that they were caught up in.
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I was a real loner in high school, even though people assume I was the head cheerleader.
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I think there are two prevailing views of the suburbs in the States: either they're this sort of tedious place, where everyone is the same, buys the same food and drives around in their little minivans, or the view is that the suburbs are extremely perverse in a humorous way.
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If you stimulate the economy by means of a tax cut, the people that you tend to be benefiting are the better off.
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That men should ‘turn the other cheek,’ should ‘love their enemies,’ should ‘resist not evil,’ has ever seemed fine to teach to children, to preach on Sundays, to round a period in a senseless oratorical flight; but it has been taken for granted that these sentiments cannot furnish the real foundation for strong characters or great states. p. 13
