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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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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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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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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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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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No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men.
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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man -- public opinion.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
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If a man really has charge of his destiny at all, he should have something to say about getting born and I only came through by a hair's-breadth. What had I to do with this momentous first step? In the language of the lawyer, I was not even a party of the second part.
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Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
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