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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?

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
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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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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it.
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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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The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth
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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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The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
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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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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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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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Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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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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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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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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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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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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The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.
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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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