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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
Atheism
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men.
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The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
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To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder and doubt and guess.
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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.
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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 world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
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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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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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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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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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Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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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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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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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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Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.
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