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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.

Clarence Darrow

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Clarence Darrow
Age: 80 †
Born: 1857
Born: April 18
Died: 1938
Died: March 13
Lawyer
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Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
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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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There is a soul of truth in error there is a soul of good in evil.
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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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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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It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
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The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.
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If a man really has charge of his destiny at all, he should have something to say about getting born and I only came through by a hair's-breadth. What had I to do with this momentous first step? In the language of the lawyer, I was not even a party of the second part.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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The efforts of the medical profession in the US to control:...its...job it proposes to monopolize. It has been carrying on a vigorous campaign all over the country against new methods and schools of healing because it wants the business...I have watched this medical profession for a long time and it bears watching.
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Cheating, having 'hoes,' none of that is cute. To be honest, it's really immature. I don't see how people take pride in breaking someone's heart. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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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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Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.
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