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Christianity did not come with tidings of great joy, but with a message of eternal grief. It came with the threat of everlasting torture on its lips. It meant war on earth and perdition hereafter.
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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Epithets are not arguments. Abuse does not persuade.
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If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot make it better by piling epithet upon epithet. There is no logic in abuse there is no argument in an epithet.
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Religion supports nobody. It has to be supported. It produces no wheat, no corn it ploughs no land it fells no forests. It is a perpetual mendicant. It lives on the labors of others, and then has the arrogance to pretend that it supports the giver.
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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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There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers.
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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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The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
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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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Darwin has done more to change human thought than all the priests who have existed.
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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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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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Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world.
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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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Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of anything.
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To give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself.
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Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . . So that, after all, the real aristocracy must be that of goodness where the intellect is directed by the heart.
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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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No one can control his own opinion or his own belief. My belief was forced upon me by my surroundings. I am the product of all circumstances that have in any way touched me.
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Insolence is not logic epithets are the arguments of malice.
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