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The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.
— Clarence Budington Kelland
No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.
— Clarence Darrow
I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity.
— Clarence Darrow
Be adorable always to each other; respect is everlasting.
— Clarence Day
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.
— Clarence Darrow
It would seem that some black people want to say that when you, as a black, become successful, you cease to be black. That's ridiculous.
— Clarence Thomas
Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
— Clarence Darrow
Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.
— Edmund Clarence Stedman
Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
— Clarence Darrow
Being involved in the well-being and advancement of one's own community is a most natural thing to do.
— Clarence Clemons
I look forward to working out every day.
— Clarence Clemons
Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.
— Clarence Darrow
It's God's world. He washes you clean. He makes you whole. He puts rain in your garden and sunshine in your heart. "Clarence
— James McBride
Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
— Clarence Darrow
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
— Clarence Darrow
And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.
— Clarence Thomas
Scopes isn't on trial; civilization is on trial.
— Clarence Darrow
Clarence once mentioned to me during a negotiation but he should be paid not only for playing but for being Clarence.
— Bruce Springsteen
We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
— Clarence Darrow
Be quick, be quiet, and be on time.
— Clarence L "Kelly" Johnson
We're all killers at heart ... I have never taken anybody's life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
— Clarence Darrow
Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
— Clarence Darrow
I play blues, sure, but don't call me a bluesman
— Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
Anyone serious about changing an individual's life for the better knows the answer lies in education.
— Clarence B. Jones
The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.
— Bruce Springsteen
The poet who does not revere his art, and believe in its sovereignty, is not born to wear the purple.
— Edmund Clarence Stedman
In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.
— Clarence Darrow
People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same.
— Clarence Thomas
I was Catholic. You talk about a minority within a minority within a minority: a black Catholic in Savannah, GA.
— Clarence Thomas
The weary August days are long;The locusts sing a plaintive song,
The cattle miss their master's call
When they see the sunset shadows fall. — Edmund Clarence Stedman
O fresh-lit dawn! immortal life!O Earth's betrothal, sweet and true! — Edmund Clarence Stedman
I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
— Clarence Darrow
The White House said today that Judge Clarence Thomas, President Bush's Supreme Court nominee, had smoked marijuana while in college.
— Clarence Thomas
The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
— Clarence Darrow
History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.
— Clarence Darrow
Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.
— Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow, America's best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history's most skilled orators.
— Jill Lepore
Tender are a mother's dreams, But her babe's not what he seems. See him plotting in his mind To grow up some other kind.
— Clarence Day
As a boy, I was about the slkowest moving youngster in school.
— Clarence DeMar
The true man neither guiltily conceals nor anxiously explains nor vulgarly parades.
— Clarence Darrow
My father didn't tell me how to live;he lived, and let me watch him do it — Clarence Budington Kelland
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
If a liberal were to attack Justice Clarence Thomas on the grounds that he's black, we would all go crazy.
— Newt Gingrich
Men are egotists, and not all tolerant of one man's selfhood; they do not always deem the amities elective.
— Edmund Clarence Stedman
This play is dedicated to the memory of Clarence Darrow, The Great Defender, whose mental frontiers were the four corners of the sky.
— Tennessee Williams
Lo, as I gaze, the statured man,Built up from you large hand appears:
A type that nature wills to plan
But once in all a people's years. — Edmund Clarence Stedman
If you educate an idiot, you end up with an educated idiot.
— Robert Clarence Swanson
Genius does not need a special language; it uses newly whatever tongue it finds.
— Edmund Clarence Stedman
Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
— Clarence Darrow
An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
— Clarence Darrow
We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
— Clarence Day
I do read music, but I prefer playing from the heart.
— Clarence Clemons
I disagree with the prevailing point of view of some black leaders that special treatment for blacks is acceptable.
— Clarence Thomas
Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.
— Clarence Day Jr.
Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
— Clarence Darrow
The worshipper of energy is too physically energetic to see that he cannot explore certain higher fields until he is still.
— Clarence Day
The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed in song.
— Edmund Clarence Stedman
As Branford Marsalis said in a beautiful essay he write upon Clarence's death, C was blessed with 'the power of musical intent.
— Bruce Springsteen
Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
— Clarence Darrow
Men, who achieve much, die as do those who achieve nothing.
— Clarence H. Burns
I do think that our freedoms are at risk.
— Clarence Thomas
I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.
— Clarence Thomas
I went into the seminary when I was 16.
— Clarence Thomas
Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.— Clarence Darrow
I hear people say it affected your self-esteem to be segregated. It never affected mine.
— Clarence Thomas
Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom.
— Clarence Darrow
We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.
— Clarence Day
Fear is the polio of the soul. Faith is the life based on unseen realities; it is the word become flesh.
— Clarence Jordan
Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
— Clarence Darrow
No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
— Clarence Darrow
Run like hell and get the agony over with.
— Clarence De Mar
This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid for in full.
— Clarence Day
Worth, courage, honor, these indeedYour sustenance and birthright are. — Edmund Clarence Stedman
Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
— Clarence Darrow
If you've never mistyped your password, it isn't complex enough.
— D. Clarence Snyder
The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
— Clarence Darrow
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
Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.
— Clarence Darrow
Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
— Clarence Darrow
In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
— Clarence Darrow
I've probably given more speeches, been on TV more than any other member of the Court - or almost any other member of the Court.
— Clarence Thomas
When God's finger points, God's hand will open the door.
— Clarence Benjamin Jones