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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.
Clarence Darrow
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Clarence Darrow
Age: 80 †
Born: 1857
Born: April 18
Died: 1938
Died: March 13
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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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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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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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Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the freewill to select his course.
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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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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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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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We're all killers at heart . . . . I have never taken anybody's life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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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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The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.
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There is a soul of truth in error there is a soul of good in evil.
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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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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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The law is a horrible business.
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