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Sacred are the lips from which has issued only truth.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Robert Green Ingersoll
Age: 65 †
Born: 1833
Born: August 11
Died: 1899
Died: July 21
Essayist
Lawyer
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Dresden
Yates County
New York
Robert Ingersoll
The Great Agnostic
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In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.
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My principal objections to orthodox religion are two: slavery here and hell hereafter.
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I do not see how it is possible for an intelligent human being to conclude that the Song of Solomon is the work of God, and that the tragedy of Lear was the work of an uninspired man.
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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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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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One thing I do know, and that is, that neither hope, nor fear, belief, nor denial, can change the fact. It is as it is, and it will be as it must be.
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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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I am not so much for the freedom of religion as I am for the religion of freedom.
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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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There is more real devotional feeling summoned from the temple of the mind by great music than by any sermon ever delivered.
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The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable.
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Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
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