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• Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.

  Clarence Darrow

  Hero, My Hero

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.73, Lulu.com

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• Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.

  Clarence Darrow

  Children, Chloroform, Fit

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• None meet life honestly and few heroically.

  Clarence Darrow

  Life, Honestly

  "Infidels and Heretics: An Agnostic's Anthology". Book by Clarence Darrow and Wallace Rice, 1929.

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• I am simply an agnostic. I haven't yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don't know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.

  Clarence Darrow

  Running, Opportunity, Religion

  Clarence Darrow, S. T. Joshi (2005). “Closing Arguments: Clarence Darrow on Religion, Law, and Society”, p.66, Ohio University Press

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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.

  Clarence Darrow

  Life, Mean, Important

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• To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder
  and doubt and guess.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Years, Doubt

  Clarence Darrow (1995). “Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays”

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• I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

  Clarence Darrow

  Funny, Death, Dying

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• Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.

  Clarence Darrow

  People, Birth Control, Remember

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.20, Lulu.com

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• No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.

  Clarence Darrow

  Good Friend, Men, Law

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “Crime: Its Cause and Treatment”, p.99, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Every one knows that the heavenly bodies move in certain paths in relation to each other with seeming consistency and regularity which we call [physical] law. ... No one attributes freewill or motive to the material world. Is the conduct of man or the other animals any more subject to whim or choice than the action of the planets? ... We know that man's every act is induced by motives that led or urged him here or there; that the sequence of cause and effect runs through the whole universe, and is nowhere more compelling than with man.

  Clarence Darrow

  Running, Moving, Men

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• Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either.

  Clarence Darrow

  Believe, Belief, Don't Believe

  The New York Times, April 19, 1936.

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• Everybody is a potential murderer. I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.

  Clarence Darrow

  Funny, Clever, Smart

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• Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business, and, besides, could not be done. The line between honesty and dishonesty is a narrow, shifting one and usually lets those get by that are the most subtle and already have more than they can use.

  Clarence Darrow

  Honesty, Lying, Law

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.84, Lulu.com

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• All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Dislike Someone, Wish

  "The Story of My Life". Book by Clarence Darrow, 1932.

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• We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.

  Clarence Darrow

  Life, Wisdom, Knowledge

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• We're all killers at heart . . . . I have never taken anybody's life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.

  Clarence Darrow

  Taken, Heart, Killers

  Testimony before congressional committee, 1 Feb. 1926

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• My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.

  Clarence Darrow

  Long Ago, Bylaws, Moral

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• For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.

  Clarence Darrow

  Anger, Judgement, Rooms

  "The Story of My Life".

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• If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, America, Ifs

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• We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Despair, Prison

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.90, Lulu.com

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• An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.

  Clarence Darrow

  Religious, Doubt, Atheism

  Clarence Darrow (1995). “Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays”

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• Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.

  Clarence Darrow

  Retirement, People, Habit

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• In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.

  Clarence Darrow

  Cake, Choices, Way

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.38, Lulu.com

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• Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Thinking, Mind

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “Crime: Its Cause and Treatment”, p.119, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The consideration and kindness shown by unfortunates to each other are surprising to those who have no experience with this class of men. Often to find real sympathy you must go to those who know what misery means.

  Clarence Darrow

  Kindness, Real, Mean

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “Crime: Its Cause and Treatment”, p.127, Sheba Blake Publishing

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