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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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Clarence Darrow
Age: 80 †
Born: 1857
Born: April 18
Died: 1938
Died: March 13
Lawyer
Writer
Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
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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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Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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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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Do you think you can cure the hatreds and the maladjustments of the world by hanging them? You simply show your ignorance and your hate when you say it. You may here and there cure hatred with love and understanding, but you can only add fuel to the flames by cruelty and hate.
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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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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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Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the freewill to select his course.
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Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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I had a vivid imagination. Not only could I put myself in the other person's place, but I could not avoid doing so. My sympathies always went out to the weak, the suffering, and the poor. Realizing their sorrows I tried to relieve them in order that I myself might be relieved.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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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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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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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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The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
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