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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.
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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The whip degrades a severe father teaches his children to dissemble their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense. Fear is the father of lies.
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The few have said, Think! The many have said, Believe! The first doubt was the womb and cradle of progress, and from the first doubt, man has continued to advance.
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I am going to put the Bible out of business.
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As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school.
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The church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves.
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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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There is more real devotional feeling summoned from the temple of the mind by great music than by any sermon ever delivered.
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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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Every sect is a certificate that God has not plainly revealed his will to man. To each reader the Bible conveys a different meaning.
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Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . .
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I have no confidence in any religion that can be demonstrated only to children.
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