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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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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs
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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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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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You can't get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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Thirteen states with a population less than that of New York State alone can prevent repeal [of prohibition] until Halley's comet returns. One might as well talk about a summer vacation on Mars.
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The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog - to wiggle along as far as he can without dying or, to hang to life until death takes him.
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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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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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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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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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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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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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The efforts of the medical profession in the US to control:...its...job it proposes to monopolize. It has been carrying on a vigorous campaign all over the country against new methods and schools of healing because it wants the business...I have watched this medical profession for a long time and it bears watching.
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Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.
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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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