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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
Jokes
Atheism
Dead
Serious
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Everything
Joke
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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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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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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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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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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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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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Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.
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There is a soul of truth in error there is a soul of good in evil.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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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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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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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 difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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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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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out of Coolidge.
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Cheating, having 'hoes,' none of that is cute. To be honest, it's really immature. I don't see how people take pride in breaking someone's heart. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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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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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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