Quote by Clarence Darrow
The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover

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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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away. – Clarence Darrow

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Hope
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With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in man, than any other association of men. – Clarence Darrow

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Unions
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In the third century after Christ the faith continued to spread. – Kenneth Scott Latourette

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No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful. – Marquis de Sade

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Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it. – Georges Bernanos

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Faith

My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ. – John Woolman

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Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects. – Joseph Butler

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment. – Novalis

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You know, in 1975 I couldnt get a job in New York City because I was American. The kitchens were predominantly run by French, Swiss, German, and basically I got laughed at. I had education, I had experience, but got laughed at because I was American. – Emeril Lagasse

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Im in a period of growth and expansion. Im taking long, hard looks at the world and whats happening in it, analyzing and thinking. Im trying to become acquainted with the universe — with the part of it I occupy — and trying to settle, for myself, what my relationship with it is. – Gene Roddenberry

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