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Intelligence, guided by kindness, is the highest wisdom. . . .
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 church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness.
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Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.
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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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Strange but true: those who have loved God most have loved men least.
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The book, called the Bible, is filled with passages equally horrible, unjust and atrocious. This is the book to be read in schools in order to make our children loving, kind and gentle! This is the book they wish to be recognized in our Constitution as the source of all authority and justice!
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Too much doubt is better than too much credulity.
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As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.
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If nobody has too much, everybody will have enough.
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Millions of men give all their energies, as well as their very souls, for the acquisition of gold. And this will continue as long as society is ignorant enough and hypocritical enough to hold in high esteem the man of wealth without the slightest regard to the character of the man.
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An infinite personality is an infinite impossibility.
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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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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 found that the clergy did not understand their own book.
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So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.
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Every sect is a certificate that God has not plainly revealed his will to man. To each reader the Bible conveys a different meaning.
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The church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves.
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The more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true.
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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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