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One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests.
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
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I am going to put the Bible out of business.
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I am anxious to give away information, for it is only by giving it away that you can keep it. When you have told it, you remember it. It is with information as it is with liberty, the only way to be dead sure of it is to give it to other people.
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Catholicism is contrary to human liberty. Catholicism bases salvation upon belief. Catholicism teaches man to trample his reason under foot. And for that reason it is wrong.
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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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Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.
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In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.
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There is more real devotional feeling summoned from the temple of the mind by great music than by any sermon ever delivered.
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There are some truths, however, that we should never forget: Superstition has always been the relentless enemy of science faith has been a hater of demonstration hypocrisy has been sincere only in its dread of truth, and all religions are inconsistent with mental freedom.
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If the Bible is true, it needs no inspiration, and - if not true, inspiration can do it no good.
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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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Laughing has always been considered by theologians as a crime.
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If this religion is true, then there is only one Savior, only one narrow path to life. Christianity cannot live in peace with any other religion.
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The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual.
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Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answer—good, honest, noble work.
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To give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself.
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Intelligence, guided by kindness, is the highest wisdom. . . .
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The more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true.
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Great virtues may draw attention from defects, they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a diamond surrounded by pebbles is still a gem.
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Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
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The man who accepts opinions because they have been entertained by distinguished people, is a mental snob.
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