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If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost.
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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If priests had not been fond of mutton, lambs never would have been sacrified to god. Nothing was ever carried to the temple that the priest could not use, and it always happened that god wanted what his agents liked.
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If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.
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The most important thing in this world is liberty. More important than food or clothes - more important than gold or houses or lands - more important than art or science - more important than all religions, is the liberty of man.
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And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?
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To give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself.
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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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This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.
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I believe in the gospel of cheerfulness, the gospel of Good Nature the gospel of Good Health. Let us pay some attention to our bodies. Take care of our bodies, and our souls will take care of themselves.
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Everyone should be taught the nobility of labor, the heroism and splendor of honest effort. As long as it is considered disgraceful to labor, or aristocratic not to labor, the world will be filled with idleness and crime, and with every possible moral deformity.
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Darwin has done more to change human thought than all the priests who have existed.
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As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.
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No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God what we know is science.
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If this religion is true, then there is only one Savior, only one narrow path to life. Christianity cannot live in peace with any other religion.
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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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The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.
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When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men are civilized. The people need education - facts - philosophy.
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Creationists use facts the same way a drunk uses a lightpost: for support instead of illumination
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The record of a generous life runs like a vine around the memory of our dead, and every sweet unselfish act is now a perfumed flower.
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Truth is the mother of joy. Truth civilizes, ennobles and purifies. The grandest ambition that can enter the soul is to know the truth.
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