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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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Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer.
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We are told in the Pentateuch, that god, the father of us all, gave thousands of maidens, after having killed their fathers, their mothers, and their brothers, to satisfy the brutal lusts of savage men. If there be a god, I pray him to write in his book, opposite my name, that I denied this lie for him.
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My principal objections to orthodox religion are two: slavery here and hell hereafter.
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One thing I do know, and that is, that neither hope, nor fear, belief, nor denial, can change the fact. It is as it is, and it will be as it must be.
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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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Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world.
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Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.
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I would rather live with the woman I love in a world full of trouble, than to live in heaven with nobody but men.
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I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the living tears for the dead.
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One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.
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According to the celestial multiplication table, once one is three, and three times one is one, and according to heavenly subtraction if we take two from three, three are left. The addition is equally peculiar, if we add two to one we have but one. Each one is equal to himself and the other two.
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If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot make it better by piling epithet upon epithet. There is no logic in abuse there is no argument in an epithet.
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If the world ever advances beyond what it is today, it must be led by men who express their real opinions.
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There is no harmony between religion and science. When science was a child, religion sought to strangle it in the cradle. Now that science has attained its youth, and superstition is in its dotage, the trembling, palsied wreck says to the athlete: Let us be friends.
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I hate above all things a cross man. What right has he to murder the sunshine of a day? What right has he to assassinate the Joy of life? When you go home, you ought to go like a ray of light-so that it will, even in the night, burst out of the doors and windows and illuminate the darkness.
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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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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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This, in my judgment, is the highest philosophy: First, do not regret having lost yesterday second, do not fear that you will lose tomorrow third, enjoy today.
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He loves his country best who strives to make it best.
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Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction.
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