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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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If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man.
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I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a famine!
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You see, after all, few rich men own their property. The property owns them.
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