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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 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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It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.
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It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew god.
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Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud
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Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible.
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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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The record of a generous life runs like a vine around the memory of our dead, and every sweet unselfish act is now a perfumed flower.
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I would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend money like a beggar.
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I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in this.
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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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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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The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn-the less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything.
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Insolence is not logic epithets are the arguments of malice.
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Christianity did not come with tidings of great joy, but with a message of eternal grief. It came with the threat of everlasting torture on its lips. It meant war on earth and perdition hereafter.
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I am going to put the Bible out of business.
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Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into politics
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Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.
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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 only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence and secondly, that we are rather sorry that we have not, and wish we had.
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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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