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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
Yates County
New York
Robert Ingersoll
The Great Agnostic
Deny
Others
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Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.
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Grant others the same rights as you claim for yourself.
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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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If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot make it better by piling epithet upon epithet. There is no logic in abuse there is no argument in an epithet.
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The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn-the less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything.
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Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.
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Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.
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The record of a generous life runs like a vine around the memory of our dead, and every sweet unselfish act is now a perfumed flower.
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I am anxious to give away information, for it is only by giving it away that you can keep it. When you have told it, you remember it. It is with information as it is with liberty, the only way to be dead sure of it is to give it to other people.
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He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes.
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The man who finds a truth lights a torch.
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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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And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?
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I hate above all things a cross man. What right has he to murder the sunshine of a day? What right has he to assassinate the Joy of life? When you go home, you ought to go like a ray of light-so that it will, even in the night, burst out of the doors and windows and illuminate the darkness.
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Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into politics
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We are not accountable for the sins of Adam.
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Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction.
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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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All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.
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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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