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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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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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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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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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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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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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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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You can't get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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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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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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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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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.
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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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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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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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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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