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

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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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Women
Men
Life
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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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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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