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If the property belongs to God he is able to pay the tax.
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
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Music expresses feeling and thought, without language it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.
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My principal objections to orthodox religion are two: slavery here and hell hereafter.
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My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and, I might add, infinitely absurd.
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Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
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I am going to put the Bible out of business.
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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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Let us agree not to step on each other’s feet.
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The more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true.
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It has always seemed to me that a being coming from another world, with a message of infinite importance to mankind, should at least have verified that message by his own signature. Is it not wonderful that not one word was written by Christ?
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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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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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I would rather smoke one cigar than hear two sermons.
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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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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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In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.
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