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Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.
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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Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.
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It is with men as with other things. The mullein needs only a year, but the oak a century, and the greatest men are those who have continued to grow as long as they have lived.
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Sacred are the lips from which has issued only truth.
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They who stand with breaking hearts around this little grave, need have no fear. The larger and the nobler faith in all that is, and is to be, tells us that death, even at its worst, is only perfect rest ... The dead do not suffer.
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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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To give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself.
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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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A crime against god is a demonstrated impossibility.
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I would not for my life destroy one star of human hope, but I want it so that when a poor woman rocks the cradle and sings a lullaby to the dimpled darling, she will not be compelled to believe that ninety-nine chances in a hundred she is raising kindling wood for hell.
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Epithets are not arguments. Abuse does not persuade.
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The more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true.
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Burns had his faults, his frailties. He was intensely human. Still, I would rather appear at the Judgment Seat drunk, and be able to say that I was the author of A man's a man for 'a that, than to be perfectly sober and admit that I had lived and died a Scotch Presbyterian.
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The good part of Christmas is not always Christian -- it is generally Pagan that is to say, human, natural.
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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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Love your friends and be just to your enemies.
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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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I am not so much for the freedom of religion as I am for the religion of freedom.
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Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.
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The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.
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Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, Halt! A creed is the ignorant Past bulling the enlightened Present.
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