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I would rather live with the woman I love in a world full of trouble, than to live in heaven with nobody but men.
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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Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.
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An honest God is the noblest work of man.
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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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There is no harmony between religion and science. When science was a child, religion sought to strangle it in the cradle. Now that science has attained its youth, and superstition is in its dotage, the trembling, palsied wreck says to the athlete: Let us be friends.
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Hope is the consolation of the world.
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Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.
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Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.
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Heresy is a cradle orthodoxy a coffin.
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An infinite God ought to be able to protect Himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures.
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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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Catholicism is contrary to human liberty. Catholicism bases salvation upon belief. Catholicism teaches man to trample his reason under foot. And for that reason it is wrong.
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Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
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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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A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.
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One man in the right will finally get to be a majority.
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You cannot be so poor that you cannot help somebody.
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Christianity has made more lunatics than it ever provided asylums for.
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One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.
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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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