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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Clarence Darrow

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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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I had a vivid imagination. Not only could I put myself in the other person's place, but I could not avoid doing so. My sympathies always went out to the weak, the suffering, and the poor. Realizing their sorrows I tried to relieve them in order that I myself might be relieved.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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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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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
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I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.
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Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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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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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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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.
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In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
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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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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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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 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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