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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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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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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.
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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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The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
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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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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder and doubt and guess.
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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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