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The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.

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
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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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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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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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The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.
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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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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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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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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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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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No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.
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Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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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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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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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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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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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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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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