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The trouble with law is lawyers.
Clarence Darrow
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Clarence Darrow
Age: 80 †
Born: 1857
Born: April 18
Died: 1938
Died: March 13
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Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
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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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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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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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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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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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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 always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.
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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 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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Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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