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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.

Clarence Darrow

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Clarence Darrow
Age: 80 †
Born: 1857
Born: April 18
Died: 1938
Died: March 13
Lawyer
Writer
Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
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World
Liberties
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Liberty
Freedom
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I had a vivid imagination. Not only could I put myself in the other person's place, but I could not avoid doing so. My sympathies always went out to the weak, the suffering, and the poor. Realizing their sorrows I tried to relieve them in order that I myself might be relieved.
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I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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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.
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If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder and doubt and guess.
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I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man -- public opinion.
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Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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