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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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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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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.
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A jury is more apt to be unbiased and independent than a court, but they very seldom stand up against strong public clamor. Judges naturally believe the defendant is guilty.
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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 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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The purpose of life is to live it.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
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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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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.
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The law is a horrible business.
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I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity.
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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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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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There is a soul of truth in error there is a soul of good in evil.
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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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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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