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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
Clarence Darrow
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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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I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.
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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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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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If a man really has charge of his destiny at all, he should have something to say about getting born and I only came through by a hair's-breadth. What had I to do with this momentous first step? In the language of the lawyer, I was not even a party of the second part.
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The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
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