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None meet life honestly and few heroically.

Clarence Darrow

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Clarence Darrow
Age: 80 †
Born: 1857
Born: April 18
Died: 1938
Died: March 13
Lawyer
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Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
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None
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Life

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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.
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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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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
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It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.
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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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I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.
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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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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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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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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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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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Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the freewill to select his course.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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