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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.
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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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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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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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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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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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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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 truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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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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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.
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I am simply an agnostic. I haven't yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don't know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
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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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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
Clarence Darrow
Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the freewill to select his course.
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