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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.
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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Millions of men give all their energies, as well as their very souls, for the acquisition of gold. And this will continue as long as society is ignorant enough and hypocritical enough to hold in high esteem the man of wealth without the slightest regard to the character of the man.
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The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony with torture, with flaying alive, and with burnings.
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An infinite personality is an infinite impossibility.
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The good part of Christmas is not always Christian -- it is generally Pagan that is to say, human, natural.
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Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.
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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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He [The Improved Man] will enjoy not only the sunshine of life, but will bear with fortitude the darkest days. He will have no fear of death. About the grave, there will be no terrors, and his life will end as serenely as the sun rises.
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All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.
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The only reason why we wish to exchange thoughts is that we are different. If we were all the same, we would die dumb. No thought would be expressed after we found that our thoughts were precisely alike. We differ-our thoughts are different. Therefore the commerse that we call conversation.
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Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
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Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.
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We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know.
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As a matter of fact, no one knows that God exists and no one knows that God does not exist. To my mind there is no evidence that God exists - that this world is governed by a being of infinite goodness, wisdom and power, but I do not pretend to know.
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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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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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If the Bible is true, it needs no inspiration, and - if not true, inspiration can do it no good.
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If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man.
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Intelligence, guided by kindness, is the highest wisdom. . . .
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Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
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The minister asks, 'What right have you to hope? It is sacrilegious to you.' But, whether the clergy like it or not, I shall always express my real opinion, and shall always be glad to say to those who mourn: 'There is in death, as I believe, nothing worse than sleep. Hope for as much better as you can.'
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