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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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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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Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.
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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 is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.
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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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I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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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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The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.
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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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Everyone is the heir to all that has gone before his structure and emotional life is fixed, and no two children of nature have the same heredity. I believe everyone should and must live out what is in him. So no two lives can be the same.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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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 law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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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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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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Lawyers are natural politicians.
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