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Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, Halt! A creed is the ignorant Past bulling the enlightened Present.
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 would not for my life destroy one star of human hope, but I want it so that when a poor woman rocks the cradle and sings a lullaby to the dimpled darling, she will not be compelled to believe that ninety-nine chances in a hundred she is raising kindling wood for hell.
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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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It is grander to think and investigate for yourself than to repeat a creed.
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The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness.
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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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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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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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One man in the right will finally get to be a majority.
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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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When a fact can be demonstrated, force is unnecessary when it cannot be demonstrated, force is infamous.
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Laughing has always been considered by theologians as a crime.
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Creationists use facts the same way a drunk uses a lightpost: for support instead of illumination
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The triumph of justice is the only peace.
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There are some truths, however, that we should never forget: Superstition has always been the relentless enemy of science faith has been a hater of demonstration hypocrisy has been sincere only in its dread of truth, and all religions are inconsistent with mental freedom.
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The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know.
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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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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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Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.
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There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe when the loving, the tender, east a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.
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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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