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We're all killers at heart . . . . I have never taken anybody's life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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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 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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Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.
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Criminal cases receive the attention of the press. The cruel and disagreeable things of life are more apt to get the newspaper space than the pleasant ones. It must be that most people enjoy hearing of and reading about the troubles of others. Perhaps men unconsciously feel that they rise in the general level as others go down.
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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 do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.
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In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
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I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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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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Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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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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Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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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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