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Arguments cannot be answered with insults. . . . Kindness is strength. . . . Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm.
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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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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Music expresses feeling and thought, without language it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.
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Even in the business of corporations honesty is the best policy, and the companies that have acted in accordance with the highest standard, other things being equal, have reaped the richest harvest.
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I honestly believe that the doctrine of hell was born in the glittering eyes of snakes that run in frightful coils watching for their prey. I believe it was born with the yelping, howling, growling and snarling of wild beasts... I despise it, I defy it, and I hate it.
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I will follow my logic, no matter where it goes, after it has consulted with my heart. If you ever come to a conclusion without calling the heart in, you will come to a bad conclusion.
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Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.
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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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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 inventor of the plow did more good than the maker of the first rosary - because, say what you will, plowing is better than praying.
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If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot make it better by piling epithet upon epithet. There is no logic in abuse there is no argument in an epithet.
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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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When a fact can be demonstrated, force is unnecessary when it cannot be demonstrated, force is infamous.
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Why should we postpone our joy to another world? Let us get all we can of the good between the cradle and the grave, all that we can of the truly dramatic. If, when death comes, that is the end, we have at least made the best of this life.
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If there is a God, there should be no slaves.
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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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The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual.
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