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The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
Clarence Darrow
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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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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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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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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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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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No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.
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The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog - to wiggle along as far as he can without dying or, to hang to life until death takes him.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.
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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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The purpose of life is to live it.
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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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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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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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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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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.
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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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