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Do right, not to deny yourself but because you love yourself and because you love others.
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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We are not accountable for the sins of Adam.
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If nobody has too much, everybody will have enough.
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Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.
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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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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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If the world ever advances beyond what it is today, it must be led by men who express their real opinions.
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It cannot be too often repeated, that truth scorns the assistance of miracle.
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Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.
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Every church that has a standard higher than human welfare is dangerous.
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Above all things, one should maintain his self-respect, and there is but one way to do that, and that is to live in accordance with your highest ideal.
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Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.
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Everyone should be taught the nobility of labor, the heroism and splendor of honest effort. As long as it is considered disgraceful to labor, or aristocratic not to labor, the world will be filled with idleness and crime, and with every possible moral deformity.
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The more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true.
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Blasphemy is what an old dogma screams at a new truth.
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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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The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
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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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I have no confidence in any religion that can be demonstrated only to children.
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If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man.
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The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other.
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