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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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Everyone is the heir to all that has gone before his structure and emotional life is fixed, and no two children of nature have the same heredity. I believe everyone should and must live out what is in him. So no two lives can be the same.
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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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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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The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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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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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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I had a vivid imagination. Not only could I put myself in the other person's place, but I could not avoid doing so. My sympathies always went out to the weak, the suffering, and the poor. Realizing their sorrows I tried to relieve them in order that I myself might be relieved.
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There is a soul of truth in error there is a soul of good in evil.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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I am pleading for the future I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of men. When we can learn by, reason and judgment and understanding and faith that all life is worth saving, and that mercy is the highest attribute of man.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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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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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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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it.
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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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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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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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