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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.

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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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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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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The purpose of life is to live it.
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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 truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men.
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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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Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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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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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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Cheating, having 'hoes,' none of that is cute. To be honest, it's really immature. I don't see how people take pride in breaking someone's heart. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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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 do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.
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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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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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