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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
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Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
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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 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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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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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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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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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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There is a soul of truth in error there is a soul of good in evil.
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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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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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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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The law is a horrible business.
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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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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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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.
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Everyone is the heir to all that has gone before his structure and emotional life is fixed, and no two children of nature have the same heredity. I believe everyone should and must live out what is in him. So no two lives can be the same.
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The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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