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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
Life
Hang
Like
Dying
Along
Takes
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Death
Without
Men
Wiggle

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The purpose of life is to live it.
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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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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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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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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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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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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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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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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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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 have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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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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