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Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible.

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
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The book, called the Bible, is filled with passages equally horrible, unjust and atrocious. This is the book to be read in schools in order to make our children loving, kind and gentle! This is the book they wish to be recognized in our Constitution as the source of all authority and justice!
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All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.
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The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered.
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Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of temperance, for the sake of morality, or for the sake of anything. It is of more value than everything. Yet some people would destroy the sun to prevent the growth of weeds. Liberty sustains the same relation to all the virtues that the sun does to life.
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He who dishonors himself [by lying about his opinions] for the sake of being honored by others will find that two mistakes have been made - one by himself, and the other, by the people.
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If nobody has too much, everybody will have enough.
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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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Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and no persecutions.
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Nothing is greater than to break the chains from the bodies of men, nothing nobler than to destroy the phantom of the soul.
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One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.
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If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.
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If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I will, I could not produce a better scheme of life than now prevails, I would be ashamed of my efforts and consider my work a humiliating failure.
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Orthodoxy cannot afford to put out the fires of hell.
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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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Ignorance worships mystery reason explains it the one grovels, the other soars.
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Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires. To doubt is heresy, to inquire is to admit that you do not know—the Church does neither.
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If we are immortal, it is a fact of nature, and that fact does not depend on bibles, on Christs, priest, or creeds.
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I have no confidence in any religion that can be demonstrated only to children.
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Epithets are not arguments. Abuse does not persuade.
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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
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