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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
Writer
Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
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Living
Women
Men
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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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As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
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The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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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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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it.
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Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the freewill to select his course.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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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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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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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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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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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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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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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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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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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
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Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.
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