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Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.

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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
Atheism
Dead
Serious
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Everything
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Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.
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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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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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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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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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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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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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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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If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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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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The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.
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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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