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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.

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 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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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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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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There is a soul of truth in error there is a soul of good in evil.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
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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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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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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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It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
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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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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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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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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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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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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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