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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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We're all killers at heart . . . . I have never taken anybody's life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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Cheating, having 'hoes,' none of that is cute. To be honest, it's really immature. I don't see how people take pride in breaking someone's heart. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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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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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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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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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.
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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.
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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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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.
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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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Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the freewill to select his course.
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The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog - to wiggle along as far as he can without dying or, to hang to life until death takes him.
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