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

Clarence Darrow

We’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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Heart Kill Life Notice Satisfaction
Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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Happiness Laughter People Religion Yourself
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
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Beginning Believe Myself President
Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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Poor Rich Trial
Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
CLARENCE DARROW

Chase Freedom Hell Touch Truth Yourself
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.
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Doubt Explanation Mystery Origin Question Universe
The law is a horrible business.
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Business Horrible One Liner
It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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Children Greatness Misfortune Opportunity Rich
The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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Case Jury Law Reality
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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Beginning Death Fear God Investigation Study Wisdom
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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Afraid Devil God Man Universe Woman
None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Hero Honesty Life
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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Hate Injustice Land Patriot True
The trouble with law is lawyers.
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Law Lawyer Trouble
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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Greatness Idea Monument
Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.
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End Environment Important Lesson Life Live Relation

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