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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.

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
Better
Come
Humanizing
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Men
Improvement
Permanent
Education
Social
Order

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In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
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One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of his long experience with the man, and because the man has always told a consistent story. But no man has told so consistent a story as nature.
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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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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.
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