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The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.
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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It has always seemed to me that a being coming from another world, with a message of infinite importance to mankind, should at least have verified that message by his own signature. Is it not wonderful that not one word was written by Christ?
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Insolence is not logic epithets are the arguments of malice.
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What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
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As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.
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This, in my judgment, is the highest philosophy: First, do not regret having lost yesterday second, do not fear that you will lose tomorrow third, enjoy today.
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Death is only perfect rest.
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I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in this.
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I am anxious to give away information, for it is only by giving it away that you can keep it. When you have told it, you remember it. It is with information as it is with liberty, the only way to be dead sure of it is to give it to other people.
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It is grander to think and investigate for yourself than to repeat a creed.
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It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race.
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Blasphemy is what an old dogma screams at a new truth.
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Let us agree not to step on each other’s feet.
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An infinite personality is an infinite impossibility.
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Strange but true: those who have loved God most have loved men least.
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If we are immortal, it is a fact of nature, and that fact does not depend on bibles, on Christs, priest, or creeds.
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I have no confidence in any religion that can be demonstrated only to children.
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I would rather smoke one cigar than hear two sermons.
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The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul, breaking the mental manacles, getting the brain out of bondage, giving courage to thought, filling the world with mercy, justice, and joy.
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I would not for my life destroy one star of human hope, but I want it so that when a poor woman rocks the cradle and sings a lullaby to the dimpled darling, she will not be compelled to believe that ninety-nine chances in a hundred she is raising kindling wood for hell.
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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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