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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

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
Doubt
Wisdom
Children
Think
Thinking
Doubted
Tragedy
Teaching

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With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men.
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The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
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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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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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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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Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.
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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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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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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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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
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One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of his long experience with the man, and because the man has always told a consistent story. But no man has told so consistent a story as nature.
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Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the freewill to select his course.
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Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth
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