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It is better to deserve without receiving than to receive without deserving
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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If there be gods we cannot help them, but we can assist our fellow men. We cannot love the inconceivable, but we can love wife and child and friend.
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If priests had not been fond of mutton, lambs never would have been sacrified to god. Nothing was ever carried to the temple that the priest could not use, and it always happened that god wanted what his agents liked.
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If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost.
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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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Music expresses feeling and thought, without language it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.
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Is there an intelligent man or woman now in the world who believes in the Garden of Eden story? If you find any man who believes it, strike his forehead and you will hear an echo. Something is for rent.
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Sacred are the lips from which has issued only truth.
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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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The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness.
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Ignorance is the worst form of slavery. (Paraphrased)
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By nature all people are alike, but by education become different
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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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An infinite personality is an infinite impossibility.
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It is with men as with other things. The mullein needs only a year, but the oak a century, and the greatest men are those who have continued to grow as long as they have lived.
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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.
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Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into politics
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If the property belongs to God he is able to pay the tax.
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Do not trust those in whom the compulsion to punish is strong.
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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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The man who finds a truth lights a torch.
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