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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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Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world.
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But honest men do not pretend to know they are candid and sincere they love the truth they admit their ignorance, and they say, We do not know.
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Commerce makes friends, religion makes enemies the one enriches, and the other impoverishes the one thrives best where the truth is told, the other where falsehoods are believed.
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Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.
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If there is one subject in this world worthy of being discussed, worthy of being understood, it is the question of intellectual liberty. Without that, we are simply painted clay.
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He raised his hands, not to strike, but in benediction. Lincoln was the grandest figure of the fiercest civil war. He is the gentlest memory of our world.
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Love your friends and be just to your enemies.
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Even in the business of corporations honesty is the best policy, and the companies that have acted in accordance with the highest standard, other things being equal, have reaped the richest harvest.
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We are not accountable for the sins of Adam.
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Truth is the mother of joy. Truth civilizes, ennobles and purifies. The grandest ambition that can enter the soul is to know the truth.
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Above all things, one should maintain his self-respect, and there is but one way to do that, and that is to live in accordance with your highest ideal.
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Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of anything.
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Do not trust those in whom the compulsion to punish is strong.
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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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If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot make it better by piling epithet upon epithet. There is no logic in abuse there is no argument in an epithet.
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I am not so much for the freedom of religion as I am for the religion of freedom.
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If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.
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The man who finds a truth lights a torch.
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I would rather smoke one cigar than hear two sermons.
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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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