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By nature all people are alike, but by education become different

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Robert Green Ingersoll
Age: 65 †
Born: 1833
Born: August 11
Died: 1899
Died: July 21
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But honest men do not pretend to know they are candid and sincere they love the truth they admit their ignorance, and they say, We do not know.
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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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The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered.
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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
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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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The good part of Christmas is not always Christian -- it is generally Pagan that is to say, human, natural.
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The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other.
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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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I know of no crime that has not been defended by the church, in one form or other. The church is not a pioneer it accepts a new truth, last of all, and only when denial has become useless.
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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 idea that there is a God who rewards and punishes, and who can reward, if he so wishes, the meanest and vilest of the human race, so that he will be eternally happy, and can punish the best of the human race, so that he will be eternally miserable, is subversive of all morality.
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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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If the property belongs to God he is able to pay the tax.
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It is better to deserve without receiving than to receive without deserving
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Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answer—good, honest, noble work.
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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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All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.
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Great virtues may draw attention from defects, they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a diamond surrounded by pebbles is still a gem.
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If the money is raised by taxation, then the burden will fall where it ought to fall, . . . and the rich and stingy will no longer be able to evade the duties of citizenship and of humanity.
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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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