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Quote by Clarence Darrow
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the secon

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. – Clarence Darrow

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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. – Clarence Darrow

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Faith
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Clarence Darrow
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The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. – Oscar Wilde

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From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture. – W. Somerset Maugham

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Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. – Lewis Mumford, The Brown Decades

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First we are children to our parents, then parents to our children, then parents to our parents, then children to our children. – Milton Greenblatt

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