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I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

Clarence Darrow

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Clarence Darrow
Age: 80 †
Born: 1857
Born: April 18
Died: 1938
Died: March 13
Lawyer
Writer
Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
Fear
Atheistic
Death
Geese
Mother
Agnostic
Believe
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Atheist
Atheism
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Religion
Goose

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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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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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Every government on earth is the personification of violence and force, and yet the doctine of non-resistance is as old as human thought - even more than this, the instinct is as old as life upon the earth.
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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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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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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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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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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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Do you think you can cure the hatreds and the maladjustments of the world by hanging them? You simply show your ignorance and your hate when you say it. You may here and there cure hatred with love and understanding, but you can only add fuel to the flames by cruelty and hate.
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The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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Thirteen states with a population less than that of New York State alone can prevent repeal [of prohibition] until Halley's comet returns. One might as well talk about a summer vacation on Mars.
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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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