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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
Writer
Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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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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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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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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The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth
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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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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man -- public opinion.
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