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Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Robert Green Ingersoll
Age: 65 †
Born: 1833
Born: August 11
Died: 1899
Died: July 21
Essayist
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Dresden
Yates County
New York
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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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The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other.
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The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.
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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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As a matter of fact, no one knows that God exists and no one knows that God does not exist. To my mind there is no evidence that God exists - that this world is governed by a being of infinite goodness, wisdom and power, but I do not pretend to know.
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Too much doubt is better than too much credulity.
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The more liberty you give away the more you will have.
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Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.
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The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.
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He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes.
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Honesty is the mother of confidence it unites, combines and solidifies society. Dishonesty is disintegration it destroys confidence it brings social chaos. . . .
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I believe in the gospel of cheerfulness, the gospel of Good Nature the gospel of Good Health. Let us pay some attention to our bodies. Take care of our bodies, and our souls will take care of themselves.
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There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers.
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Nothing but truth is immortal.
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