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Reason, observation, and experience the holy trinity of science.
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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Every human being should be taught that his first duty is to take care of himself, and that to be self-respecting he must be self-supporting. To live on the labor of others, either by force which enslaves, or by cunning which robs, or by borrowing or begging, is wholly dishonorable. Every man should be taught some useful art.
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By nature all people are alike, but by education become different
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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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Every church that has a standard higher than human welfare is dangerous.
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We are not accountable for the sins of Adam.
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Creationists use facts the same way a drunk uses a lightpost: for support instead of illumination
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The ministers, who preached at these revivals, were in earnest. They were zealous and sincere. They were not philosophers. To them science was the name of a vague dread - a dangerous enemy. They did not know much, but they believed a great deal.
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Nothing but truth is immortal.
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An infinite personality is an infinite impossibility.
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This, in my judgment, is the highest philosophy: First, do not regret having lost yesterday second, do not fear that you will lose tomorrow third, enjoy today.
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There is only one way to be happy, and that is to make somebody else so, and you cannot be happy by going cross lots you have got to go the regular turnpike road.
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The book, called the Bible, is filled with passages equally horrible, unjust and atrocious. This is the book to be read in schools in order to make our children loving, kind and gentle! This is the book they wish to be recognized in our Constitution as the source of all authority and justice!
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The man who finds a truth lights a torch.
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Epithets are not arguments. Abuse does not persuade.
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As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.
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Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud
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The idea that there is a God who rewards and punishes, and who can reward, if he so wishes, the meanest and vilest of the human race, so that he will be eternally happy, and can punish the best of the human race, so that he will be eternally miserable, is subversive of all morality.
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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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Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.
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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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