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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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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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The law is a horrible business.
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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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The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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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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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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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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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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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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A jury is more apt to be unbiased and independent than a court, but they very seldom stand up against strong public clamor. Judges naturally believe the defendant is guilty.
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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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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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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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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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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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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Criminal cases receive the attention of the press. The cruel and disagreeable things of life are more apt to get the newspaper space than the pleasant ones. It must be that most people enjoy hearing of and reading about the troubles of others. Perhaps men unconsciously feel that they rise in the general level as others go down.
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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