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No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
Clarence Darrow
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Clarence Darrow
Age: 80 †
Born: 1857
Born: April 18
Died: 1938
Died: March 13
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Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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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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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man -- public opinion.
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There is a soul of truth in error there is a soul of good in evil.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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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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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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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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As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it.
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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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Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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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 iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.
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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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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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