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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
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Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
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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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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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Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.
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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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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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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
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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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No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.
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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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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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There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.
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Lawyers are natural politicians.
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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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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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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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