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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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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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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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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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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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You can't get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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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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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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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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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.
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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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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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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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I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.
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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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