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The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
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
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Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.
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Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . .
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It is grander to think and investigate for yourself than to repeat a creed.
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Hope is the consolation of the world.
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Every cradle asks us, Whence? and every coffin, Whither? The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as intelligently as the robed priest of the most authentic creed.
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Epithets are not arguments. Abuse does not persuade.
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Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.
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The idea that there is a God who rewards and punishes, and who can reward, if he so wishes, the meanest and vilest of the human race, so that he will be eternally happy, and can punish the best of the human race, so that he will be eternally miserable, is subversive of all morality.
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Would God give a bird wings and make it a crime to fly? Would he give me brains and make it a crime to think? Any God that would damn one of his children for the expression of his honest thought wouldn't make a decent thief. When I read a book and don't believe it, I ought to say so. I will do so and take the consequences like a man.
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I would rather smoke one cigar than hear two sermons.
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An infinite personality is an infinite impossibility.
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If nobody has too much, everybody will have enough.
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The first duty of man is to support himself - to see to it that he does not become a burden. His next duty is to help others if he has a surplus, and if he really believes they deserve to be helped.
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By nature all people are alike, but by education become different
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It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race.
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You cannot be so poor that you cannot help somebody.
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Nothing but truth is immortal.
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There are some truths, however, that we should never forget: Superstition has always been the relentless enemy of science faith has been a hater of demonstration hypocrisy has been sincere only in its dread of truth, and all religions are inconsistent with mental freedom.
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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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Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?
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