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If nobody has too much, everybody will have enough.
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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The Great Agnostic
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One man in the right will finally get to be a majority.
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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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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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We do not need the forgiveness of God, but of each other and of ourselves.
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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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