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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.
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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To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder and doubt and guess.
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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Criminal cases receive the attention of the press. The cruel and disagreeable things of life are more apt to get the newspaper space than the pleasant ones. It must be that most people enjoy hearing of and reading about the troubles of others. Perhaps men unconsciously feel that they rise in the general level as others go down.
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Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out of Coolidge.
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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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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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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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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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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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