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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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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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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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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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Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man.
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I am pleading for the future I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of men. When we can learn by, reason and judgment and understanding and faith that all life is worth saving, and that mercy is the highest attribute of man.
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There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.
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