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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

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
Humans
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Afflict
Afflicted
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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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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.
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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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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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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out of Coolidge.
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Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.
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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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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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