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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
Dead
Serious
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Everything
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The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs
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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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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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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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We're all killers at heart . . . . I have never taken anybody's life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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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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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
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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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The law is a horrible business.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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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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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of his long experience with the man, and because the man has always told a consistent story. But no man has told so consistent a story as nature.
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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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A jury is more apt to be unbiased and independent than a court, but they very seldom stand up against strong public clamor. Judges naturally believe the defendant is guilty.
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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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