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The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know.
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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Undesirable
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Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.
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A crime against god is a demonstrated impossibility.
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An honest God is the noblest work of man.
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If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot make it better by piling epithet upon epithet. There is no logic in abuse there is no argument in an epithet.
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The church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves.
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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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Ignorance worships mystery reason explains it the one grovels, the other soars.
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Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.
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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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As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school.
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The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual.
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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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Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.
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I would rather smoke one cigar than hear two sermons.
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Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.
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Strange but true: those who have loved God most have loved men least.
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