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And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?
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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One thing I do know, and that is, that neither hope, nor fear, belief, nor denial, can change the fact. It is as it is, and it will be as it must be.
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The more liberty you give away the more you will have.
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Love your friends and be just to your enemies.
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Christianity has made more lunatics than it ever provided asylums for.
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For the most part we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. Our beliefs, like the fashion of our garments, depend on where we were born. We are molded and fashioned by our surroundings.
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Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.
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The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.
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It is grander to think and investigate for yourself than to repeat a creed.
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Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.
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The few took advantage of the ignorant many. They pretended to have received messages from the Unknown. They stood between the helpless multitude and the gods. They were the carriers of flags of truce. At the court of heaven they presented the cause of man, and upon the labor of the deceived they lived.
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Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.
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If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I will, I could not produce a better scheme of life than now prevails, I would be ashamed of my efforts and consider my work a humiliating failure.
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Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves.
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He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes.
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Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
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Insolence is not logic epithets are the arguments of malice.
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Strange but true: those who have loved God most have loved men least.
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We must remember that we have to make judges out of men, and that by being made judges their prejudices are not diminished and their intelligence is not increased.
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Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.
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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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