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No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God what we know is 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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Dresden
Yates County
New York
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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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I would rather live with the woman I love in a world full of trouble, than to live in heaven with nobody but men.
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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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If the Bible is true, it needs no inspiration, and - if not true, inspiration can do it no good.
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Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.
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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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Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.
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I have no confidence in any religion that can be demonstrated only to children.
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I am going to put the Bible out of business.
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On every hand there seems to be design to defeat design. If God created man - if he is the father of us all, why did he make the criminals, the insane, the deformed and idiotic? Should the mother, who clasps to her breast an idiot child, thank God?
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Ignorance is the worst form of slavery. (Paraphrased)
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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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The few have said, Think! The many have said, Believe! The first doubt was the womb and cradle of progress, and from the first doubt, man has continued to advance.
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I would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend money like a beggar.
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They who stand with breaking hearts around this little grave, need have no fear. The larger and the nobler faith in all that is, and is to be, tells us that death, even at its worst, is only perfect rest ... The dead do not suffer.
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Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible.
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Do right, not to deny yourself but because you love yourself and because you love others.
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We have at last ascertained that miracles can be perfectly understood that there is nothing mysterious about them that they are simply transparent falsehoods.
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