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With soap, baptism is a good thing.
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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There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers.
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There is no harmony between religion and science. When science was a child, religion sought to strangle it in the cradle. Now that science has attained its youth, and superstition is in its dotage, the trembling, palsied wreck says to the athlete: Let us be friends.
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Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.
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Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.
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One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.
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I honestly believe that the doctrine of hell was born in the glittering eyes of snakes that run in frightful coils watching for their prey. I believe it was born with the yelping, howling, growling and snarling of wild beasts... I despise it, I defy it, and I hate it.
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By nature all people are alike, but by education become different
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Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of temperance, for the sake of morality, or for the sake of anything. It is of more value than everything. Yet some people would destroy the sun to prevent the growth of weeds. Liberty sustains the same relation to all the virtues that the sun does to life.
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The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.
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There is more real devotional feeling summoned from the temple of the mind by great music than by any sermon ever delivered.
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Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.
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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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The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
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Creationists use facts the same way a drunk uses a lightpost: for support instead of illumination
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Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world.
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The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.
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Everyone should be taught the nobility of labor, the heroism and splendor of honest effort. As long as it is considered disgraceful to labor, or aristocratic not to labor, the world will be filled with idleness and crime, and with every possible moral deformity.
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My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and, I might add, infinitely absurd.
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If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.
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If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man.
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