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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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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 best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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Thirteen states with a population less than that of New York State alone can prevent repeal [of prohibition] until Halley's comet returns. One might as well talk about a summer vacation on Mars.
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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 am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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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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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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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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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it.
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I am simply an agnostic. I haven't yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don't know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
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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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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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Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.
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