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Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out of Coolidge.
Clarence Darrow
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Clarence Darrow
Age: 80 †
Born: 1857
Born: April 18
Died: 1938
Died: March 13
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Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
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I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god he would be a devil.
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No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.
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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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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.
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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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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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Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.
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To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder and doubt and guess.
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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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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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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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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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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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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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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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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.
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