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Clarence Darrow

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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
Dead
Serious
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Everything
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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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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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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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 am pleading for the future I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of men. When we can learn by, reason and judgment and understanding and faith that all life is worth saving, and that mercy is the highest attribute of man.
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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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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.
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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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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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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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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
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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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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.
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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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