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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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Atheist
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An honest God is the noblest work of man.
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It is told that the great Angelo, in decorating a church, painted some angels wearing sandals. A cardinal looking at the picture said to the artist: Whoever saw angels with sandals? Angelo answered with another question: Whoever saw an angel barefooted?
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If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.
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Even in the business of corporations honesty is the best policy, and the companies that have acted in accordance with the highest standard, other things being equal, have reaped the richest harvest.
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You cannot be so poor that you cannot help somebody.
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Darwin has done more to change human thought than all the priests who have existed.
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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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Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction.
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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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In making up my mind as to what Mr. Lincoln really believed, I do not take into consideration the evidence of unnamed persons or the contents of anonymous letters I take the testimony of those who knew and loved him, of those to whom he opened his heart and to whom he spoke in the freedom of perfect confidence.
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The moment you introduce a despotism in the world of thought, you succeed in making hypocrites - and you get in such a position that you never know what your neighbor thinks.
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It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race.
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The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
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It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.
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They knew that it was necessary to believe these things and to love God. They knew that there could be no salvation except by faith, and through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ.
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If we have the right to use our reason, we certainly have the right to act in accordance with it, and no god can have the right to punish us for such action
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They knew no better, but I do not propose to follow the example of a barbarian because he was honestly a barbarian.
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Epithets are not arguments. Abuse does not persuade.
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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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