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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
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Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
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Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out of Coolidge.
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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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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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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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One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of his long experience with the man, and because the man has always told a consistent story. But no man has told so consistent a story as nature.
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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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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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The law is a horrible business.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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Every government on earth is the personification of violence and force, and yet the doctine of non-resistance is as old as human thought - even more than this, the instinct is as old as life upon the earth.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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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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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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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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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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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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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
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Thirteen states with a population less than that of New York State alone can prevent repeal [of prohibition] until Halley's comet returns. One might as well talk about a summer vacation on Mars.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.
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