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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
Writer
Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
Truth
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Chase
Pursuit
Honesty
Hell

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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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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 am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god he would be a devil.
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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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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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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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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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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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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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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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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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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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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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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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Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.
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No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
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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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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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