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Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.

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Clarence Darrow
Age: 80 †
Born: 1857
Born: April 18
Died: 1938
Died: March 13
Lawyer
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Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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Everyone is the heir to all that has gone before his structure and emotional life is fixed, and no two children of nature have the same heredity. I believe everyone should and must live out what is in him. So no two lives can be the same.
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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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