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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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Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music.
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All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.
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The more liberty you give away the more you will have.
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The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness.
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Prayer is of no avail. The lightning falls on the just and the unjust in accordance with natural laws.
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If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost.
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The book, called the Bible, is filled with passages equally horrible, unjust and atrocious. This is the book to be read in schools in order to make our children loving, kind and gentle! This is the book they wish to be recognized in our Constitution as the source of all authority and justice!
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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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Why should we postpone our joy to another world? Let us get all we can of the good between the cradle and the grave, all that we can of the truly dramatic. If, when death comes, that is the end, we have at least made the best of this life.
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Burns had his faults, his frailties. He was intensely human. Still, I would rather appear at the Judgment Seat drunk, and be able to say that I was the author of A man's a man for 'a that, than to be perfectly sober and admit that I had lived and died a Scotch Presbyterian.
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It is told that the great Angelo, in decorating a church, painted some angels wearing sandals. A cardinal looking at the picture said to the artist: Whoever saw angels with sandals? Angelo answered with another question: Whoever saw an angel barefooted?
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