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WillyT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-14-10 08:08 PM
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A Handy Clarence Darrow Quote, In Case Cheney's Condition Worsens...
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
Clarence Darrow

:evilgrin:

Acually... Mr. Darrow has some great ones...

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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.
Clarence Darrow

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

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
Clarence Darrow

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

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
Clarence Darrow

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
Clarence Darrow

I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
Clarence Darrow

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
Clarence Darrow

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

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.
Clarence Darrow

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
Clarence Darrow

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

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

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

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.
Clarence Darrow

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

Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom.
Clarence Darrow

Link: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/clarence_darrow.html

Enjoy!

:hi:
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-14-10 08:12 PM
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1. Wonderful, true, and most of all: Funny!
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JoeyT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-15-10 04:31 AM
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2. I didn't attend the funeral, but I did send a nice note saying that I approved of it. (M. Twain) n/t
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-15-10 07:30 AM
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3. Recommend
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