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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.

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
Life
Purpose
Lives
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Women
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.
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Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.
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Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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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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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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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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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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A jury is more apt to be unbiased and independent than a court, but they very seldom stand up against strong public clamor. Judges naturally believe the defendant is guilty.
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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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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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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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Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.
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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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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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