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I am going to put the Bible out of business.
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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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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Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
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I am simply in favor of intellectual hospitality-that is all. You come to me with a new idea. I invite you into the house. Let us see what you have. Let us talk it over. If I do not like your thought, I will bid it a polite good day. If I do like it, I will say: Sit down stay with me, and become a part of the intellectual wealth of my world.
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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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When a fact can be demonstrated, force is unnecessary when it cannot be demonstrated, force is infamous.
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Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.
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Why should we postpone our joy to another world? Let us get all we can of the good between the cradle and the grave, all that we can of the truly dramatic. If, when death comes, that is the end, we have at least made the best of this life.
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Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires. To doubt is heresy, to inquire is to admit that you do not know—the Church does neither.
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Just to the extent that the Bible was appealed to in matters of science, science was retarded and just to the extent that science has been appealed to in matters of religion, religion has advanced - so that now the object of intelligent religionists is to adopt a creed that will bear the test and criticism of science.
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Every church that has a standard higher than human welfare is dangerous.
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Orthodoxy cannot afford to put out the fires of hell.
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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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I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in this.
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Abraham Lincoln was, in my judgment, in many respects, the grandest man ever President of the United States. Upon his monument these words should be written: Here sleeps the only man in the history of the world who, having been clothed with almost absolute power, never abused it, except upon the side of mercy.
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