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I found that the clergy did not understand their own book.
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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Dresden
Yates County
New York
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The Great Agnostic
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It is with men as with other things. The mullein needs only a year, but the oak a century, and the greatest men are those who have continued to grow as long as they have lived.
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Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.
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Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment.
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Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.
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Commerce makes friends, religion makes enemies the one enriches, and the other impoverishes the one thrives best where the truth is told, the other where falsehoods are believed.
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Commerce is the great civilizer.
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Too much doubt is better than too much credulity.
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We must remember that we have to make judges out of men, and that by being made judges their prejudices are not diminished and their intelligence is not increased.
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As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.
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No man of sense in the whole world believes in devils any more than he does in mermaids, vampires, gorgons, hydras, naiads, dryads, nymphs, fairies, the Fountain of Youth, [or] the Philosopher's Stone. . . .
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We are all children of the same mother, and the same fate awaits us all. We, too, have our religion, and it is this: Help for the living-Hope for the dead.
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Arguments cannot be answered with insults. . . . Kindness is strength. . . . Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm.
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My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and, I might add, infinitely absurd.
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Laughing has always been considered by theologians as a crime.
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Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
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He who dishonors himself [by lying about his opinions] for the sake of being honored by others will find that two mistakes have been made - one by himself, and the other, by the people.
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The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know.
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Do right, not to deny yourself but because you love yourself and because you love others.
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Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction.
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Love your friends and be just to your enemies.
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