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Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Robert Green Ingersoll
Age: 65 †
Born: 1833
Born: August 11
Died: 1899
Died: July 21
Essayist
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Dresden
Yates County
New York
Robert Ingersoll
The Great Agnostic
Conviction
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Choices
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the inventor of the plow did more good than the maker of the first rosary - because, say what you will, plowing is better than praying.
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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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Talent has the four seasons: spring, that is to say, the sowing of the seeds summer, growth autumn, the harvest winter, intellectual death. But there is now and then a genius who has no winter, and, no matter how many years he may live, on the blossom of his thought no snow falls. Genius has the climate of perpetual growth.
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Only those who live on the labor of the ignorant are the enemies of science. Real love and real religion are in no danger from science. The more we know the safer all good things are.
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Ignorance worships mystery reason explains it the one grovels, the other soars.
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If the property belongs to God he is able to pay the tax.
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The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered.
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Commerce is the great civilizer.
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I know of no crime that has not been defended by the church, in one form or other. The church is not a pioneer it accepts a new truth, last of all, and only when denial has become useless.
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Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
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The most important thing in this world is liberty. More important than food or clothes - more important than gold or houses or lands - more important than art or science - more important than all religions, is the liberty of man.
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Orthodoxy cannot afford to put out the fires of hell.
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Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.
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An infinite God ought to be able to protect Himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures.
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By nature all people are alike, but by education become different
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