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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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Cheating, having 'hoes,' none of that is cute. To be honest, it's really immature. I don't see how people take pride in breaking someone's heart. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it.
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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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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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Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.
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You can't get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the freewill to select his course.
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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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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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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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