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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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There is a soul of truth in error there is a soul of good in evil.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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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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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
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I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.
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The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog - to wiggle along as far as he can without dying or, to hang to life until death takes him.
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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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The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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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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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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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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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.
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