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We have at last ascertained that miracles can be perfectly understood that there is nothing mysterious about them that they are simply transparent falsehoods.
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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Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.
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The few have said, Think! The many have said, Believe! The first doubt was the womb and cradle of progress, and from the first doubt, man has continued to advance.
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Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, Halt! A creed is the ignorant Past bulling the enlightened Present.
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What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
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Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer.
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My principal objections to orthodox religion are two: slavery here and hell hereafter.
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There are some truths, however, that we should never forget: Superstition has always been the relentless enemy of science faith has been a hater of demonstration hypocrisy has been sincere only in its dread of truth, and all religions are inconsistent with mental freedom.
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We are not accountable for the sins of Adam.
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The whip degrades a severe father teaches his children to dissemble their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense. Fear is the father of lies.
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There is more real devotional feeling summoned from the temple of the mind by great music than by any sermon ever delivered.
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Honesty is the mother of confidence it unites, combines and solidifies society. Dishonesty is disintegration it destroys confidence it brings social chaos. . . .
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If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man.
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It seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us alike.
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By nature all people are alike, but by education become different
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The man who accepts opinions because they have been entertained by distinguished people, is a mental snob.
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It is better to deserve without receiving than to receive without deserving
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The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual.
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The triumph of justice is the only peace.
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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.
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Would God give a bird wings and make it a crime to fly? Would he give me brains and make it a crime to think? Any God that would damn one of his children for the expression of his honest thought wouldn't make a decent thief. When I read a book and don't believe it, I ought to say so. I will do so and take the consequences like a man.
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