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Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.
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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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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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 ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
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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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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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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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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity.
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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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I had a vivid imagination. Not only could I put myself in the other person's place, but I could not avoid doing so. My sympathies always went out to the weak, the suffering, and the poor. Realizing their sorrows I tried to relieve them in order that I myself might be relieved.
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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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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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog - to wiggle along as far as he can without dying or, to hang to life until death takes him.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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