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The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth

Clarence Darrow

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Clarence Darrow
Age: 80 †
Born: 1857
Born: April 18
Died: 1938
Died: March 13
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Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
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The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
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Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.
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I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.
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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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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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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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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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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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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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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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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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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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I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.
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The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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I am simply an agnostic. I haven't yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don't know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
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