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The more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true.
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
New York
Robert Ingersoll
The Great Agnostic
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Everyone should be taught the nobility of labor, the heroism and splendor of honest effort. As long as it is considered disgraceful to labor, or aristocratic not to labor, the world will be filled with idleness and crime, and with every possible moral deformity.
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I will follow my logic, no matter where it goes, after it has consulted with my heart. If you ever come to a conclusion without calling the heart in, you will come to a bad conclusion.
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Sacred are the lips from which has issued only truth.
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Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.
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Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and no persecutions.
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Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
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The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn-the less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything.
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I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a famine!
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When a fact can be demonstrated, force is unnecessary when it cannot be demonstrated, force is infamous.
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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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Only a few years ago there was no person too ignorant to successfully answer Charles Darwin and the more ignorant he was the more cheerfully he undertook the task.
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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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One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.
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It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.
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I would rather smoke one cigar than hear two sermons.
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To know that the Bible is the literature of a barbarous people, to know that it is uninspired, to be certain that the supernatural does not and cannot exist - all this is but the beginning of wisdom.
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God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race.
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