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The purpose of life is to live it.
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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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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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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Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
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There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.
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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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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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In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
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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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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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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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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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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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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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