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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
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Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
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I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in this.
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Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, Halt! A creed is the ignorant Past bulling the enlightened Present.
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All religious systems enslave the mind. Certain things are demanded-certain things must be believed-certain things must be done-and the man who becomes the subject or servant of this superstition must give up all idea of indivuality or hope of intellectual growth or progress.
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There are some truths, however, that we should never forget: Superstition has always been the relentless enemy of science faith has been a hater of demonstration hypocrisy has been sincere only in its dread of truth, and all religions are inconsistent with mental freedom.
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The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other.
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Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into politics
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Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.
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Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.
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Language is not subtle enough, tender enough, to express all that we feel and when language fails, the highest and deepest longings are translated into music. Music is the sunshine - the climate - of the soul, and it floods the heart with a perfect June.
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The man who accepts opinions because they have been entertained by distinguished people, is a mental snob.
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Death is only perfect rest.
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I am going to put the Bible out of business.
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The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable.
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Do not trust those in whom the compulsion to punish is strong.
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It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius.
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Nothing but truth is immortal.
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I believe that there is something far nobler than loyalty to any particular man. Loyalty to the truth as we perceive it - loyalty to our duty as we know it - loyalty to the ideals of our brain and heart - is, to my mind, far greater and far nobler than loyalty to the life of any particular man or God. . . .
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