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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.
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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One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests.
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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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And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?
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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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Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.
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Just to the extent that the Bible was appealed to in matters of science, science was retarded and just to the extent that science has been appealed to in matters of religion, religion has advanced - so that now the object of intelligent religionists is to adopt a creed that will bear the test and criticism of science.
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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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As far as I am concerned I wish to be out on the high seas. I wish to take my chances with wind, and wave, and star. And I had rather go down in the glory and grandeur of the storm, than rot in any orthodox harbor.
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Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
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The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.
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It cannot be too often repeated, that truth scorns the assistance of miracle.
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The few have said, Think! The many have said, Believe! The first doubt was the womb and cradle of progress, and from the first doubt, man has continued to advance.
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Only those who live on the labor of the ignorant are the enemies of science. Real love and real religion are in no danger from science. The more we know the safer all good things are.
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I would rather smoke one cigar than hear two sermons.
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God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race.
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