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There is more real devotional feeling summoned from the temple of the mind by great music than by any sermon ever delivered.
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 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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They say: Belief is important. I say: No, actions are important. Judge by deed, not by creed.
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Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak the crafty and heartless have ensnared and enslaved the simple and innocent, and nowhere, in all the annals of mankind, has any god succored the oppressed
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They who stand with breaking hearts around this little grave, need have no fear. The larger and the nobler faith in all that is, and is to be, tells us that death, even at its worst, is only perfect rest ... The dead do not suffer.
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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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I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the living tears for the dead.
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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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It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew god.
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By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think and the right to think wrong.
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If nobody has too much, everybody will have enough.
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The Catholic Church is a thousand times better than your Protestant Church upon that question [of damnation]. The Catholic Church believes in purgatory - that is, a place where a fellow can get a chance to make a motion for a new trial.
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Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.
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As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school.
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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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Laughing has always been considered by theologians as a crime.
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Strange but true: those who have loved God most have loved men least.
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It is with men as with other things. The mullein needs only a year, but the oak a century, and the greatest men are those who have continued to grow as long as they have lived.
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The church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves.
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I admit that books were voted in and out, and that the Bible was finally formed in accordance with a vote.
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If there is a God, there should be no slaves.
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