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An infinite personality is an infinite impossibility.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Robert Green Ingersoll
Age: 65 †
Born: 1833
Born: August 11
Died: 1899
Died: July 21
Essayist
Lawyer
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Dresden
Yates County
New York
Robert Ingersoll
The Great Agnostic
Impossibility
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The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual.
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Love your friends and be just to your enemies.
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Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
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If the property belongs to God he is able to pay the tax.
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In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers they have canonized the most gigantic liars, and buried the great thieves in marble and gold. Under the loftiest monuments sleeps the dust of murder.
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Death is only perfect rest.
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They knew no better, but I do not propose to follow the example of a barbarian because he was honestly a barbarian.
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The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony with torture, with flaying alive, and with burnings.
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All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.
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The book, called the Bible, is filled with passages equally horrible, unjust and atrocious. This is the book to be read in schools in order to make our children loving, kind and gentle! This is the book they wish to be recognized in our Constitution as the source of all authority and justice!
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Strange but true: those who have loved God most have loved men least.
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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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Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
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the inventor of the plow did more good than the maker of the first rosary - because, say what you will, plowing is better than praying.
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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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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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The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
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The more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true.
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Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.
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A crime against god is a demonstrated impossibility.
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