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Science built the Academy, superstition the Inquisition.
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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Robert Ingersoll
The Great Agnostic
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Every human being should be taught that his first duty is to take care of himself, and that to be self-respecting he must be self-supporting. To live on the labor of others, either by force which enslaves, or by cunning which robs, or by borrowing or begging, is wholly dishonorable. Every man should be taught some useful art.
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One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.
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The Christians say, that among the ancient Jews, if you committed a crime you had to kill a sheep. Now they say 'charge it.' 'Put it on the slate.' The Savior will pay it. In this way, rascality is sold on credit, and the credit system in morals, as in business, breeds extravagance.
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One man in the right will finally get to be a majority.
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Love your friends and be just to your enemies.
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It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race.
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Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.
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Had he been willing to live a hypocrite, he would have been respectable, he at least could have died surrounded by other hypocrites, and at his death there would have been an imposing funeral, with miles of carriages, filled with hypocrites, and above his hypocritical dust there would have been a hypocritical monument covered with lies.
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Millions of men give all their energies, as well as their very souls, for the acquisition of gold. And this will continue as long as society is ignorant enough and hypocritical enough to hold in high esteem the man of wealth without the slightest regard to the character of the man.
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Nothing is greater than to break the chains from the bodies of men, nothing nobler than to destroy the phantom of the soul.
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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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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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If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost.
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The few have said, Think! The many have said, Believe! The first doubt was the womb and cradle of progress, and from the first doubt, man has continued to advance.
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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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We must remember that we have to make judges out of men, and that by being made judges their prejudices are not diminished and their intelligence is not increased.
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A crime against god is a demonstrated impossibility.
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The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be believed only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called faith.
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Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
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As far as I am concerned I wish to be out on the high seas. I wish to take my chances with wind, and wave, and star. And I had rather go down in the glory and grandeur of the storm, than rot in any orthodox harbor.
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