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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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I am going to put the Bible out of business.
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If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost.
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We must remember that we have to make judges out of men, and that by being made judges their prejudices are not diminished and their intelligence is not increased.
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The ministers, who preached at these revivals, were in earnest. They were zealous and sincere. They were not philosophers. To them science was the name of a vague dread - a dangerous enemy. They did not know much, but they believed a great deal.
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It is grander to think and investigate for yourself than to repeat a creed.
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Prayer is of no avail. The lightning falls on the just and the unjust in accordance with natural laws.
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There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe when the loving, the tender, east a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.
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Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.
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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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Science built the Academy, superstition the Inquisition.
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If we are immortal, it is a fact of nature, and that fact does not depend on bibles, on Christs, priest, or creeds.
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I found that the clergy did not understand their own book.
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Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.
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If the Bible and my brain are both the work of the same infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and my brain do not agree?
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Blasphemy is what an old dogma screams at a new truth.
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Burns had his faults, his frailties. He was intensely human. Still, I would rather appear at the Judgment Seat drunk, and be able to say that I was the author of A man's a man for 'a that, than to be perfectly sober and admit that I had lived and died a Scotch Presbyterian.
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In making up my mind as to what Mr. Lincoln really believed, I do not take into consideration the evidence of unnamed persons or the contents of anonymous letters I take the testimony of those who knew and loved him, of those to whom he opened his heart and to whom he spoke in the freedom of perfect confidence.
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Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into politics
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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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Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
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