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Chase after the truth like all hell.

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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
Pursuit
Honesty
Hell
Truth
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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 truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of his long experience with the man, and because the man has always told a consistent story. But no man has told so consistent a story as nature.
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Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Lawyers are natural politicians.
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There is a soul of truth in error there is a soul of good in evil.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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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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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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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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As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
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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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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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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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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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Everyone is the heir to all that has gone before his structure and emotional life is fixed, and no two children of nature have the same heredity. I believe everyone should and must live out what is in him. So no two lives can be the same.
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