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

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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
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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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Even in the business of corporations honesty is the best policy, and the companies that have acted in accordance with the highest standard, other things being equal, have reaped the richest harvest.
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Prayer is of no avail. The lightning falls on the just and the unjust in accordance with natural laws.
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With soap, baptism is a good thing.
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Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction.
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An honest God is the noblest work of man.
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Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.
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I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the living tears for the dead.
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It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius.
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Had he been willing to live a hypocrite, he would have been respectable, he at least could have died surrounded by other hypocrites, and at his death there would have been an imposing funeral, with miles of carriages, filled with hypocrites, and above his hypocritical dust there would have been a hypocritical monument covered with lies.
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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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One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.
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It has always seemed to me that a being coming from another world, with a message of infinite importance to mankind, should at least have verified that message by his own signature. Is it not wonderful that not one word was written by Christ?
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Creationists use facts the same way a drunk uses a lightpost: for support instead of illumination
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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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One man in the right will finally get to be a majority.
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When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men are civilized. The people need education - facts - philosophy.
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Talent has the four seasons: spring, that is to say, the sowing of the seeds summer, growth autumn, the harvest winter, intellectual death. But there is now and then a genius who has no winter, and, no matter how many years he may live, on the blossom of his thought no snow falls. Genius has the climate of perpetual growth.
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Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.
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Every church that has a standard higher than human welfare is dangerous.
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