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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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Why should we postpone our joy to another world? Let us get all we can of the good between the cradle and the grave, all that we can of the truly dramatic. If, when death comes, that is the end, we have at least made the best of this life.
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The first duty of man is to support himself - to see to it that he does not become a burden. His next duty is to help others if he has a surplus, and if he really believes they deserve to be helped.
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Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.
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Love your friends and be just to your enemies.
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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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I have no confidence in any religion that can be demonstrated only to children.
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Above all things, one should maintain his self-respect, and there is but one way to do that, and that is to live in accordance with your highest ideal.
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When a fact can be demonstrated, force is unnecessary when it cannot be demonstrated, force is infamous.
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The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.
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The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.
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