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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
Writer
Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
Life
Heroically
Honestly
None
Meet

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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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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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Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out of Coolidge.
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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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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man.
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Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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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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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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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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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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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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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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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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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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