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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
Lawyer
Writer
Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
Purpose
Live
Life

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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
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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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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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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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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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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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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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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god he would be a devil.
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Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.
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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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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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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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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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