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The only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence and secondly, that we are rather sorry that we have not, and wish we had.
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
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Robert Ingersoll
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If there be an infinite Being, he does not need our help - we need not waste our energies in his defense.
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Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.
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We have at last ascertained that miracles can be perfectly understood that there is nothing mysterious about them that they are simply transparent falsehoods.
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Grant others the same rights as you claim for yourself.
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If the world ever advances beyond what it is today, it must be led by men who express their real opinions.
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In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
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The old lady who said there must be a devil, else how could they make pictures that looked exactly like him, reasoned like a trained theologian - like a doctor of divinity.
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The good part of Christmas is not always Christian -- it is generally Pagan that is to say, human, natural.
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I have no confidence in any religion that can be demonstrated only to children.
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It cannot be too often repeated, that truth scorns the assistance of miracle.
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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
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If priests had not been fond of mutton, lambs never would have been sacrified to god. Nothing was ever carried to the temple that the priest could not use, and it always happened that god wanted what his agents liked.
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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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Christianity has made more lunatics than it ever provided asylums for.
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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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One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.
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We are not accountable for the sins of Adam.
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We are told in the Pentateuch, that god, the father of us all, gave thousands of maidens, after having killed their fathers, their mothers, and their brothers, to satisfy the brutal lusts of savage men. If there be a god, I pray him to write in his book, opposite my name, that I denied this lie for him.
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All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
Robert Green Ingersoll
