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Insolence is not logic epithets are the arguments of malice.
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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Dresden
Yates County
New York
Robert Ingersoll
The Great Agnostic
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Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
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I admit that books were voted in and out, and that the Bible was finally formed in accordance with a vote.
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If the Bible is true, it needs no inspiration, and - if not true, inspiration can do it no good.
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Epithets are not arguments. Abuse does not persuade.
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Hope is the consolation of the world.
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Christianity has made more lunatics than it ever provided asylums for.
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Reason is the light, the sun of the brain. It is the compass of the mind, the ever-constant Northern Star, the mountain peak that lifts itself above all clouds.
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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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Only those who live on the labor of the ignorant are the enemies of science. Real love and real religion are in no danger from science. The more we know the safer all good things are.
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It seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us alike.
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A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.
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For the most part we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. Our beliefs, like the fashion of our garments, depend on where we were born. We are molded and fashioned by our surroundings.
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I am simply in favor of intellectual hospitality-that is all. You come to me with a new idea. I invite you into the house. Let us see what you have. Let us talk it over. If I do not like your thought, I will bid it a polite good day. If I do like it, I will say: Sit down stay with me, and become a part of the intellectual wealth of my world.
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Nothing but truth is immortal.
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If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man.
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It cannot be too often repeated, that truth scorns the assistance of miracle.
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We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know.
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And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?
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If nobody has too much, everybody will have enough.
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I would not for my life destroy one star of human hope, but I want it so that when a poor woman rocks the cradle and sings a lullaby to the dimpled darling, she will not be compelled to believe that ninety-nine chances in a hundred she is raising kindling wood for hell.
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