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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.

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
Feels
Convinced
Always
Atheism
Men
Existence
Whatever
Earth
Home
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Must

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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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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.
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It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god he would be a devil.
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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.
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Everyone is the heir to all that has gone before his structure and emotional life is fixed, and no two children of nature have the same heredity. I believe everyone should and must live out what is in him. So no two lives can be the same.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth
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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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