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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
New York
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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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All religious systems enslave the mind. Certain things are demanded-certain things must be believed-certain things must be done-and the man who becomes the subject or servant of this superstition must give up all idea of indivuality or hope of intellectual growth or progress.
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Insolence is not logic epithets are the arguments of malice.
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God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race.
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Blasphemy is what an old dogma screams at a new truth.
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Sacred are the lips from which has issued only truth.
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According to the celestial multiplication table, once one is three, and three times one is one, and according to heavenly subtraction if we take two from three, three are left. The addition is equally peculiar, if we add two to one we have but one. Each one is equal to himself and the other two.
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Is there an intelligent man or woman now in the world who believes in the Garden of Eden story? If you find any man who believes it, strike his forehead and you will hear an echo. Something is for rent.
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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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A crime against god is a demonstrated impossibility.
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The Catholic Church is a thousand times better than your Protestant Church upon that question [of damnation]. The Catholic Church believes in purgatory - that is, a place where a fellow can get a chance to make a motion for a new trial.
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Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.
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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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Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.
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Christianity has made more lunatics than it ever provided asylums for.
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My principal objections to orthodox religion are two: slavery here and hell hereafter.
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Death is only perfect rest.
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In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.
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He [The Improved Man] will enjoy not only the sunshine of life, but will bear with fortitude the darkest days. He will have no fear of death. About the grave, there will be no terrors, and his life will end as serenely as the sun rises.
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Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.
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