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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.

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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
Religious
Always
Hampered
Fanaticism
Danger
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Education

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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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Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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