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The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.

Clarence Darrow

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Clarence Darrow
Age: 80 †
Born: 1857
Born: April 18
Died: 1938
Died: March 13
Lawyer
Writer
Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
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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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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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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 don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.
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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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Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.
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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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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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