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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?

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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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In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
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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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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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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 don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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Lawyers are natural politicians.
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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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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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A jury is more apt to be unbiased and independent than a court, but they very seldom stand up against strong public clamor. Judges naturally believe the defendant is guilty.
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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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There is a soul of truth in error there is a soul of good in evil.
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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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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men.
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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 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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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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