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I am simply an agnostic. I haven't yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don't know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.

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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Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.
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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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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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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 fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth
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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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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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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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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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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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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 a man really has charge of his destiny at all, he should have something to say about getting born and I only came through by a hair's-breadth. What had I to do with this momentous first step? In the language of the lawyer, I was not even a party of the second part.
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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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The law is a horrible business.
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No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.
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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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The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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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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