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The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.

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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 would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend money like a beggar.
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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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The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn-the less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything.
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Only those who live on the labor of the ignorant are the enemies of science. Real love and real religion are in no danger from science. The more we know the safer all good things are.
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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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The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.
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It seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us alike.
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If the property belongs to God he is able to pay the tax.
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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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The only reason why we wish to exchange thoughts is that we are different. If we were all the same, we would die dumb. No thought would be expressed after we found that our thoughts were precisely alike. We differ-our thoughts are different. Therefore the commerse that we call conversation.
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No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God what we know is science.
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You see, after all, few rich men own their property. The property owns them.
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It cannot be too often repeated, that truth scorns the assistance of miracle.
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I do not see how it is possible for an intelligent human being to conclude that the Song of Solomon is the work of God, and that the tragedy of Lear was the work of an uninspired man.
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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 do not need the forgiveness of God, but of each other and of ourselves.
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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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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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Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
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