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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.

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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There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.
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The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
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There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.
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Thirteen states with a population less than that of New York State alone can prevent repeal [of prohibition] until Halley's comet returns. One might as well talk about a summer vacation on Mars.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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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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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.
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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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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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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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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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Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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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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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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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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