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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.
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 do not believe in loving enemies I have pretty hard work to love my friends. Neither do I believe in revenge. No man can afford to keep the viper of revenge in his heart. But I believe in justice, in self-defense.
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Blasphemy is what an old dogma screams at a new truth.
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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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Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves.
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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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Do not trust those in whom the compulsion to punish is strong.
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I know of no crime that has not been defended by the church, in one form or other. The church is not a pioneer it accepts a new truth, last of all, and only when denial has become useless.
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The more liberty you give away the more you will have.
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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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As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school.
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Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.
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The more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true.
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