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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
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The Great Agnostic
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If the property belongs to God he is able to pay the tax.
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They say: Belief is important. I say: No, actions are important. Judge by deed, not by creed.
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I am not so much for the freedom of religion as I am for the religion of freedom.
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On every hand there seems to be design to defeat design. If God created man - if he is the father of us all, why did he make the criminals, the insane, the deformed and idiotic? Should the mother, who clasps to her breast an idiot child, thank God?
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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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This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.
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I found that the clergy did not understand their own book.
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Reason, observation, and experience the holy trinity of science.
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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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The minister asks, 'What right have you to hope? It is sacrilegious to you.' But, whether the clergy like it or not, I shall always express my real opinion, and shall always be glad to say to those who mourn: 'There is in death, as I believe, nothing worse than sleep. Hope for as much better as you can.'
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If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.
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Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.
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The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul, breaking the mental manacles, getting the brain out of bondage, giving courage to thought, filling the world with mercy, justice, and joy.
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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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Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.
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Laughing has always been considered by theologians as a crime.
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Whoever saw an angel barefooted?
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Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires. To doubt is heresy, to inquire is to admit that you do not know—the Church does neither.
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Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?
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He raised his hands, not to strike, but in benediction. Lincoln was the grandest figure of the fiercest civil war. He is the gentlest memory of our world.
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