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The good part of Christmas is not always Christian -- it is generally Pagan that is to say, human, natural.
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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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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Strange but true: those who have loved God most have loved men least.
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Why should we postpone our joy to another world? Let us get all we can of the good between the cradle and the grave, all that we can of the truly dramatic. If, when death comes, that is the end, we have at least made the best of this life.
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A crime against god is a demonstrated impossibility.
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Laughing has always been considered by theologians as a crime.
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To know that the Bible is the literature of a barbarous people, to know that it is uninspired, to be certain that the supernatural does not and cannot exist - all this is but the beginning of wisdom.
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They knew no better, but I do not propose to follow the example of a barbarian because he was honestly a barbarian.
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If the world ever advances beyond what it is today, it must be led by men who express their real opinions.
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The whip degrades a severe father teaches his children to dissemble their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense. Fear is the father of lies.
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I am not so much for the freedom of religion as I am for the religion of freedom.
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