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Love your friends and be just to your enemies.
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 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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To give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself.
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Hope is the consolation of the world.
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The few have said, Think! The many have said, Believe! The first doubt was the womb and cradle of progress, and from the first doubt, man has continued to advance.
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Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world.
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Is there an intelligent man or woman now in the world who believes in the Garden of Eden story? If you find any man who believes it, strike his forehead and you will hear an echo. Something is for rent.
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The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.
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The more liberty you give away the more you will have.
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I would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend money like a beggar.
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I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a famine!
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It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew god.
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Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
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This, in my judgment, is the highest philosophy: First, do not regret having lost yesterday second, do not fear that you will lose tomorrow third, enjoy today.
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Darwin has done more to change human thought than all the priests who have existed.
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I am simply in favor of intellectual hospitality-that is all. You come to me with a new idea. I invite you into the house. Let us see what you have. Let us talk it over. If I do not like your thought, I will bid it a polite good day. If I do like it, I will say: Sit down stay with me, and become a part of the intellectual wealth of my world.
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Only a few years ago there was no person too ignorant to successfully answer Charles Darwin and the more ignorant he was the more cheerfully he undertook the task.
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I am going to put the Bible out of business.
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Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, Halt! A creed is the ignorant Past bulling the enlightened Present.
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Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into politics
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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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