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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
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Clarence Seward Darrow
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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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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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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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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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Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.
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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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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.
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The law is a horrible business.
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There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.
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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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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity.
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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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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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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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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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