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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.

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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
Calvin
Corner
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Greatest
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Plymouth
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Coolidge
Men
Vermont

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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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The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog - to wiggle along as far as he can without dying or, to hang to life until death takes him.
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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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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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It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
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Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.
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The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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The efforts of the medical profession in the US to control:...its...job it proposes to monopolize. It has been carrying on a vigorous campaign all over the country against new methods and schools of healing because it wants the business...I have watched this medical profession for a long time and it bears watching.
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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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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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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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One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of his long experience with the man, and because the man has always told a consistent story. But no man has told so consistent a story as nature.
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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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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
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