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If the Bible is true, it needs no inspiration, and - if not true, inspiration can do it no good.
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
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Above all things, one should maintain his self-respect, and there is but one way to do that, and that is to live in accordance with your highest ideal.
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He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes.
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Language is not subtle enough, tender enough, to express all that we feel and when language fails, the highest and deepest longings are translated into music. Music is the sunshine - the climate - of the soul, and it floods the heart with a perfect June.
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Prayer is of no avail. The lightning falls on the just and the unjust in accordance with natural laws.
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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 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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I am going to put the Bible out of business.
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I would rather live with the woman I love in a world full of trouble, than to live in heaven with nobody but men.
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I honestly believe that the doctrine of hell was born in the glittering eyes of snakes that run in frightful coils watching for their prey. I believe it was born with the yelping, howling, growling and snarling of wild beasts... I despise it, I defy it, and I hate it.
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It is better to deserve without receiving than to receive without deserving
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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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If nobody has too much, everybody will have enough.
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Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
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If the property belongs to God he is able to pay the tax.
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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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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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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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Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires. To doubt is heresy, to inquire is to admit that you do not know—the Church does neither.
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Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.
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So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.
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