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As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.
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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The more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true.
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The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know.
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Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.
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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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Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment.
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If the Bible and my brain are both the work of the same infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and my brain do not agree?
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Grant others the same rights as you claim for yourself.
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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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A crime against god is a demonstrated impossibility.
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If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot make it better by piling epithet upon epithet. There is no logic in abuse there is no argument in an epithet.
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He loves his country best who strives to make it best.
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In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
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Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
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Diderot took the ground that, if orthodox religion be true Christ was guilty of suicide. Having the power to defend himself he should have used it.
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If there be gods we cannot help them, but we can assist our fellow men. We cannot love the inconceivable, but we can love wife and child and friend.
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