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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
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Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
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As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
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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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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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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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The law is a horrible business.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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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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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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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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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
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I am pleading for the future I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of men. When we can learn by, reason and judgment and understanding and faith that all life is worth saving, and that mercy is the highest attribute of man.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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There is a soul of truth in error there is a soul of good in evil.
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Cheating, having 'hoes,' none of that is cute. To be honest, it's really immature. I don't see how people take pride in breaking someone's heart. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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