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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.

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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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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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 truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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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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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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I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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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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