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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.

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
Spot
Spots
Unless
Anyone
Lying
Need
Needs

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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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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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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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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god he would be a devil.
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You can't get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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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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The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
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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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No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.
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Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.
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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.
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The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
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