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There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers.
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
Yates County
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The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered.
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Do not trust those in whom the compulsion to punish is strong.
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Strange but true: those who have loved God most have loved men least.
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A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.
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Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.
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Intelligence, guided by kindness, is the highest wisdom. . . .
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It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.
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As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.
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I would rather live with the woman I love in a world full of trouble, than to live in heaven with nobody but men.
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It is with men as with other things. The mullein needs only a year, but the oak a century, and the greatest men are those who have continued to grow as long as they have lived.
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