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Is there an intelligent man or woman now in the world who believes in the Garden of Eden story? If you find any man who believes it, strike his forehead and you will hear an echo. Something is for rent.
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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The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness.
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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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Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.
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Honesty is the mother of confidence it unites, combines and solidifies society. Dishonesty is disintegration it destroys confidence it brings social chaos. . . .
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[T]he blossom of benevolence, of charity, is the fairest flower, no matter whether it blooms by the side of a hovel, or bursts from a vine climbing the marble pillar of a palace. I respect no man because he is rich I hold in contempt no man because he is poor.
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Some president wishes to be re-elected, and thereupon speaks about the Bible as the corner-stone of American Liberty. This sentence is a mouth large enough to swallow any church, and from that time forward the religious people will be citing that remark of the politician to substantiate the inspiration of the Scriptures.
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The first duty of man is to support himself - to see to it that he does not become a burden. His next duty is to help others if he has a surplus, and if he really believes they deserve to be helped.
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Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into politics
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Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.
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Orthodoxy cannot afford to put out the fires of hell.
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No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God what we know is science.
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Heresy is a cradle orthodoxy a coffin.
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The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other.
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When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men are civilized. The people need education - facts - philosophy.
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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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They say: Belief is important. I say: No, actions are important. Judge by deed, not by creed.
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An infinite personality is an infinite impossibility.
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Darwin has done more to change human thought than all the priests who have existed.
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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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We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know.
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