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The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other.
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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Dresden
Yates County
New York
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One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.
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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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Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.
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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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Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
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The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn-the less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything.
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The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.
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As we become civilized we are governed less by persons and more by principles. . . . The best of all leaders is the man who teaches people to lead themselves.
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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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Darwin has done more to change human thought than all the priests who have existed.
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Grant others the same rights as you claim for yourself.
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God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race.
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Commerce is the great civilizer.
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Every cradle asks us, Whence? and every coffin, Whither? The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as intelligently as the robed priest of the most authentic creed.
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Some president wishes to be re-elected, and thereupon speaks about the Bible as the corner-stone of American Liberty. This sentence is a mouth large enough to swallow any church, and from that time forward the religious people will be citing that remark of the politician to substantiate the inspiration of the Scriptures.
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They who stand with breaking hearts around this little grave, need have no fear. The larger and the nobler faith in all that is, and is to be, tells us that death, even at its worst, is only perfect rest ... The dead do not suffer.
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Ignorance is the worst form of slavery. (Paraphrased)
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