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If there be an infinite Being, he does not need our help - we need not waste our energies in his defense.
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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Epithets are not arguments. Abuse does not persuade.
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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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Intelligence, guided by kindness, is the highest wisdom. . . .
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By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think and the right to think wrong.
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Science built the Academy, superstition the Inquisition.
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In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
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No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God what we know is science.
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All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.
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Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?
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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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Ignorance is the worst form of slavery. (Paraphrased)
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The only reason why we wish to exchange thoughts is that we are different. If we were all the same, we would die dumb. No thought would be expressed after we found that our thoughts were precisely alike. We differ-our thoughts are different. Therefore the commerse that we call conversation.
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If the Bible is true, it needs no inspiration, and - if not true, inspiration can do it no good.
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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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One man in the right will finally get to be a majority.
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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
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