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The old lady who said there must be a devil, else how could they make pictures that looked exactly like him, reasoned like a trained theologian - like a doctor of divinity.
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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I am simply in favor of intellectual hospitality-that is all. You come to me with a new idea. I invite you into the house. Let us see what you have. Let us talk it over. If I do not like your thought, I will bid it a polite good day. If I do like it, I will say: Sit down stay with me, and become a part of the intellectual wealth of my world.
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If the property belongs to God he is able to pay the tax.
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They knew no better, but I do not propose to follow the example of a barbarian because he was honestly a barbarian.
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If the Bible and my brain are both the work of the same infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and my brain do not agree?
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The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be believed only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called faith.
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Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
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A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.
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Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of anything.
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Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.
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Every church that has a standard higher than human welfare is dangerous.
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I would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend money like a beggar.
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I would rather smoke one cigar than hear two sermons.
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In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
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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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Heresy is a cradle orthodoxy a coffin.
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If there is one subject in this world worthy of being discussed, worthy of being understood, it is the question of intellectual liberty. Without that, we are simply painted clay.
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We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know.
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Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.
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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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