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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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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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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 purpose of life is to live it.
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The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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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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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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There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.
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The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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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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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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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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