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Hope is the consolation of the world.
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
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When struck on one cheek to turn the other, is really joining a conspiracy to secure the triumph of brutality. To agree not to resist evil is to become an accomplice of all injustice.
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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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the inventor of the plow did more good than the maker of the first rosary - because, say what you will, plowing is better than praying.
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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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[T]he blossom of benevolence, of charity, is the fairest flower, no matter whether it blooms by the side of a hovel, or bursts from a vine climbing the marble pillar of a palace. I respect no man because he is rich I hold in contempt no man because he is poor.
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Whoever saw an angel barefooted?
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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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There is no harmony between religion and science. When science was a child, religion sought to strangle it in the cradle. Now that science has attained its youth, and superstition is in its dotage, the trembling, palsied wreck says to the athlete: Let us be friends.
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I do not believe in loving enemies I have pretty hard work to love my friends. Neither do I believe in revenge. No man can afford to keep the viper of revenge in his heart. But I believe in justice, in self-defense.
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Creationists use facts the same way a drunk uses a lightpost: for support instead of illumination
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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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Darwin has done more to change human thought than all the priests who have existed.
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As we become civilized we are governed less by persons and more by principles. . . . The best of all leaders is the man who teaches people to lead themselves.
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I know of no crime that has not been defended by the church, in one form or other. The church is not a pioneer it accepts a new truth, last of all, and only when denial has become useless.
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The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
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The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.
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Commerce is the great civilizer.
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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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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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One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests.
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