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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.
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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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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I hate above all things a cross man. What right has he to murder the sunshine of a day? What right has he to assassinate the Joy of life? When you go home, you ought to go like a ray of light-so that it will, even in the night, burst out of the doors and windows and illuminate the darkness.
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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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Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.
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Death is only perfect rest.
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Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.
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The Christians say, that among the ancient Jews, if you committed a crime you had to kill a sheep. Now they say 'charge it.' 'Put it on the slate.' The Savior will pay it. In this way, rascality is sold on credit, and the credit system in morals, as in business, breeds extravagance.
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Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music.
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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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Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
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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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There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers.
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By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think and the right to think wrong.
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I do not believe in loving enemies I have pretty hard work to love my friends. Neither do I believe in revenge. No man can afford to keep the viper of revenge in his heart. But I believe in justice, in self-defense.
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We are all children of the same mother, and the same fate awaits us all. We, too, have our religion, and it is this: Help for the living-Hope for the dead.
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Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.
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Insolence is not logic epithets are the arguments of malice.
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Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.
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The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.
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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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