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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
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Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
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Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out of Coolidge.
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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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The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs
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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
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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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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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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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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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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 purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
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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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Lawyers are natural politicians.
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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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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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