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the inventor of the plow did more good than the maker of the first rosary - because, say what you will, plowing is better than praying.
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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Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music.
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Religion supports nobody. It has to be supported. It produces no wheat, no corn it ploughs no land it fells no forests. It is a perpetual mendicant. It lives on the labors of others, and then has the arrogance to pretend that it supports the giver.
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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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It is better to deserve without receiving than to receive without deserving
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A crime against god is a demonstrated impossibility.
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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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The idea that there is a God who rewards and punishes, and who can reward, if he so wishes, the meanest and vilest of the human race, so that he will be eternally happy, and can punish the best of the human race, so that he will be eternally miserable, is subversive of all morality.
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I believe that there is something far nobler than loyalty to any particular man. Loyalty to the truth as we perceive it - loyalty to our duty as we know it - loyalty to the ideals of our brain and heart - is, to my mind, far greater and far nobler than loyalty to the life of any particular man or God. . . .
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Laughing has always been considered by theologians as a crime.
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Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.
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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.
Robert Green Ingersoll
You see, after all, few rich men own their property. The property owns them.
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He loves his country best who strives to make it best.
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So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.
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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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Darwin has done more to change human thought than all the priests who have existed.
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Had he been willing to live a hypocrite, he would have been respectable, he at least could have died surrounded by other hypocrites, and at his death there would have been an imposing funeral, with miles of carriages, filled with hypocrites, and above his hypocritical dust there would have been a hypocritical monument covered with lies.
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Let us agree not to step on each other’s feet.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Truth is the mother of joy. Truth civilizes, ennobles and purifies. The grandest ambition that can enter the soul is to know the truth.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.
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