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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
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Life
Heroically
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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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The purpose of life is to live it.
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One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of his long experience with the man, and because the man has always told a consistent story. But no man has told so consistent a story as nature.
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The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it.
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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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The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs
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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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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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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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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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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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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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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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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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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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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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