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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
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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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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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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 efforts of the medical profession in the US to control:...its...job it proposes to monopolize. It has been carrying on a vigorous campaign all over the country against new methods and schools of healing because it wants the business...I have watched this medical profession for a long time and it bears watching.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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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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The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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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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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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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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There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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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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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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