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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.

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 most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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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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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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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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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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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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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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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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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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