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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
Lawyer
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Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
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Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.
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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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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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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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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 law is a horrible business.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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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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There is a soul of truth in error there is a soul of good in evil.
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Lawyers are natural politicians.
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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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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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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 best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.
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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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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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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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