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It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Robert Green Ingersoll
Age: 65 †
Born: 1833
Born: August 11
Died: 1899
Died: July 21
Essayist
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Dresden
Yates County
New York
Robert Ingersoll
The Great Agnostic
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If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost.
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I am going to put the Bible out of business.
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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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Would God give a bird wings and make it a crime to fly? Would he give me brains and make it a crime to think? Any God that would damn one of his children for the expression of his honest thought wouldn't make a decent thief. When I read a book and don't believe it, I ought to say so. I will do so and take the consequences like a man.
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Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.
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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 first duty of man is to support himself - to see to it that he does not become a burden. His next duty is to help others if he has a surplus, and if he really believes they deserve to be helped.
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My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and, I might add, infinitely absurd.
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If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I will, I could not produce a better scheme of life than now prevails, I would be ashamed of my efforts and consider my work a humiliating failure.
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It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius.
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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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Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music.
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Love your friends and be just to your enemies.
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Reason is the light, the sun of the brain. It is the compass of the mind, the ever-constant Northern Star, the mountain peak that lifts itself above all clouds.
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I am anxious to give away information, for it is only by giving it away that you can keep it. When you have told it, you remember it. It is with information as it is with liberty, the only way to be dead sure of it is to give it to other people.
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We are told in the Pentateuch, that god, the father of us all, gave thousands of maidens, after having killed their fathers, their mothers, and their brothers, to satisfy the brutal lusts of savage men. If there be a god, I pray him to write in his book, opposite my name, that I denied this lie for him.
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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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As a matter of fact, no one knows that God exists and no one knows that God does not exist. To my mind there is no evidence that God exists - that this world is governed by a being of infinite goodness, wisdom and power, but I do not pretend to know.
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Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.
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We have at last ascertained that miracles can be perfectly understood that there is nothing mysterious about them that they are simply transparent falsehoods.
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