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Chase after the truth like all hell.

Clarence Darrow

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Clarence Darrow
Age: 80 †
Born: 1857
Born: April 18
Died: 1938
Died: March 13
Lawyer
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Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
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The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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Every government on earth is the personification of violence and force, and yet the doctine of non-resistance is as old as human thought - even more than this, the instinct is as old as life upon the earth.
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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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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.
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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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Do you think you can cure the hatreds and the maladjustments of the world by hanging them? You simply show your ignorance and your hate when you say it. You may here and there cure hatred with love and understanding, but you can only add fuel to the flames by cruelty and hate.
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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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Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the freewill to select his course.
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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.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.
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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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If a man really has charge of his destiny at all, he should have something to say about getting born and I only came through by a hair's-breadth. What had I to do with this momentous first step? In the language of the lawyer, I was not even a party of the second part.
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