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As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school.
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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I do not see how it is possible for an intelligent human being to conclude that the Song of Solomon is the work of God, and that the tragedy of Lear was the work of an uninspired man.
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The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable.
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One thing I do know, and that is, that neither hope, nor fear, belief, nor denial, can change the fact. It is as it is, and it will be as it must be.
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The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know.
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He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes.
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Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.
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I would rather live with the woman I love in a world full of trouble, than to live in heaven with nobody but men.
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All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.
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We are all children of the same mother, and the same fate awaits us all. We, too, have our religion, and it is this: Help for the living-Hope for the dead.
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Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of temperance, for the sake of morality, or for the sake of anything. It is of more value than everything. Yet some people would destroy the sun to prevent the growth of weeds. Liberty sustains the same relation to all the virtues that the sun does to life.
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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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The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered.
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The few took advantage of the ignorant many. They pretended to have received messages from the Unknown. They stood between the helpless multitude and the gods. They were the carriers of flags of truce. At the court of heaven they presented the cause of man, and upon the labor of the deceived they lived.
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Do right, not to deny yourself but because you love yourself and because you love others.
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The minister asks, 'What right have you to hope? It is sacrilegious to you.' But, whether the clergy like it or not, I shall always express my real opinion, and shall always be glad to say to those who mourn: 'There is in death, as I believe, nothing worse than sleep. Hope for as much better as you can.'
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Whoever saw an angel barefooted?
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In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.
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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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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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