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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.
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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As far as I am concerned I wish to be out on the high seas. I wish to take my chances with wind, and wave, and star. And I had rather go down in the glory and grandeur of the storm, than rot in any orthodox harbor.
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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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If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.
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We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know.
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Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
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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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Epithets are not arguments. Abuse does not persuade.
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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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