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There is a soul of truth in error there is a soul of good in evil.

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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Evil
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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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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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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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Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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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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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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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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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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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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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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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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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
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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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To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder and doubt and guess.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.
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The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog - to wiggle along as far as he can without dying or, to hang to life until death takes him.
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Criminal cases receive the attention of the press. The cruel and disagreeable things of life are more apt to get the newspaper space than the pleasant ones. It must be that most people enjoy hearing of and reading about the troubles of others. Perhaps men unconsciously feel that they rise in the general level as others go down.
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