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In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Robert Green Ingersoll
Age: 65 †
Born: 1833
Born: August 11
Died: 1899
Died: July 21
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According to the celestial multiplication table, once one is three, and three times one is one, and according to heavenly subtraction if we take two from three, three are left. The addition is equally peculiar, if we add two to one we have but one. Each one is equal to himself and the other two.
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As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.
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It is with men as with other things. The mullein needs only a year, but the oak a century, and the greatest men are those who have continued to grow as long as they have lived.
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One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.
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Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.
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If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I will, I could not produce a better scheme of life than now prevails, I would be ashamed of my efforts and consider my work a humiliating failure.
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One thing I do know, and that is, that neither hope, nor fear, belief, nor denial, can change the fact. It is as it is, and it will be as it must be.
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I am not so much for the freedom of religion as I am for the religion of freedom.
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The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
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What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
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It is better to deserve without receiving than to receive without deserving
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Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . .
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If there is one subject in this world worthy of being discussed, worthy of being understood, it is the question of intellectual liberty. Without that, we are simply painted clay.
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So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.
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It cannot be too often repeated, that truth scorns the assistance of miracle.
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I would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend money like a beggar.
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The man who finds a truth lights a torch.
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Whoever saw an angel barefooted?
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I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.
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The moment you introduce a despotism in the world of thought, you succeed in making hypocrites - and you get in such a position that you never know what your neighbor thinks.
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