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The law is a horrible business.

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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Horrible
Law

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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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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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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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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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Everyone is the heir to all that has gone before his structure and emotional life is fixed, and no two children of nature have the same heredity. I believe everyone should and must live out what is in him. So no two lives can be the same.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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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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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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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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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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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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The efforts of the medical profession in the US to control:...its...job it proposes to monopolize. It has been carrying on a vigorous campaign all over the country against new methods and schools of healing because it wants the business...I have watched this medical profession for a long time and it bears watching.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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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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The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth
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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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