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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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The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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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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The purpose of life is to live it.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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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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There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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