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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
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It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew god.
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Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak the crafty and heartless have ensnared and enslaved the simple and innocent, and nowhere, in all the annals of mankind, has any god succored the oppressed
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He who dishonors himself [by lying about his opinions] for the sake of being honored by others will find that two mistakes have been made - one by himself, and the other, by the people.
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The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other.
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He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes.
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Music expresses feeling and thought, without language it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.
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