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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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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The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
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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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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
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The law is a horrible business.
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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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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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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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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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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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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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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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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Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the freewill to select his course.
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