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You cannot be so poor that you cannot help somebody.
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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It has always seemed to me that a being coming from another world, with a message of infinite importance to mankind, should at least have verified that message by his own signature. Is it not wonderful that not one word was written by Christ?
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If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man.
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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 seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us alike.
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I believe in the gospel of cheerfulness, the gospel of Good Nature the gospel of Good Health. Let us pay some attention to our bodies. Take care of our bodies, and our souls will take care of themselves.
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The man who finds a truth lights a torch.
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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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To know that the Bible is the literature of a barbarous people, to know that it is uninspired, to be certain that the supernatural does not and cannot exist - all this is but the beginning of wisdom.
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In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers they have canonized the most gigantic liars, and buried the great thieves in marble and gold. Under the loftiest monuments sleeps the dust of murder.
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Every church that has a standard higher than human welfare is dangerous.
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I am going to put the Bible out of business.
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Let us agree not to step on each other’s feet.
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Darwin has done more to change human thought than all the priests who have existed.
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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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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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You see, after all, few rich men own their property. The property owns them.
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In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
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The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.
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Why should we postpone our joy to another world? Let us get all we can of the good between the cradle and the grave, all that we can of the truly dramatic. If, when death comes, that is the end, we have at least made the best of this life.
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