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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.

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
Takes
Purpose
Death
Without
Men
Wiggle
Life
Hang
Like
Dying
Along

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You can't get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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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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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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The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
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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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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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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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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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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man -- public opinion.
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Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.
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Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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