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Ignorance is the worst form of slavery. (Paraphrased)
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
Robert Ingersoll
The Great Agnostic
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Slavery
Ignorance
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So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.
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Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.
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In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.
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The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know.
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Truth is the mother of joy. Truth civilizes, ennobles and purifies. The grandest ambition that can enter the soul is to know the truth.
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If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.
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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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Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
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Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer.
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[T]he blossom of benevolence, of charity, is the fairest flower, no matter whether it blooms by the side of a hovel, or bursts from a vine climbing the marble pillar of a palace. I respect no man because he is rich I hold in contempt no man because he is poor.
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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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An honest god is the noblest work of man. ... God has always resembled his creators. He hated and loved what they hated and loved and he was invariably found on the side of those in power. ... Most of the gods were pleased with sacrifice, and the smell of innocent blood has ever been considered a divine perfume.
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There is only one way to be happy, and that is to make somebody else so, and you cannot be happy by going cross lots you have got to go the regular turnpike road.
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Grant others the same rights as you claim for yourself.
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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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You cannot be so poor that you cannot help somebody.
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Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of anything.
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The Catholic Church is a thousand times better than your Protestant Church upon that question [of damnation]. The Catholic Church believes in purgatory - that is, a place where a fellow can get a chance to make a motion for a new trial.
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We are all children of the same mother, and the same fate awaits us all. We, too, have our religion, and it is this: Help for the living-Hope for the dead.
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