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Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?
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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For myself, I have but little confidence in any business, or enterprise, or investment, that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders.
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The only reason why we wish to exchange thoughts is that we are different. If we were all the same, we would die dumb. No thought would be expressed after we found that our thoughts were precisely alike. We differ-our thoughts are different. Therefore the commerse that we call conversation.
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Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves.
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He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes.
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The church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves.
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Every sect is a certificate that God has not plainly revealed his will to man. To each reader the Bible conveys a different meaning.
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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.
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They knew that it was necessary to believe these things and to love God. They knew that there could be no salvation except by faith, and through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ.
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Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.
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Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
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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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It is grander to think and investigate for yourself than to repeat a creed.
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All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.
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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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As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school.
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Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible.
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I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in this.
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The more liberty you give away the more you will have.
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