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If we are immortal, it is a fact of nature, and that fact does not depend on bibles, on Christs, priest, or creeds.

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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Why should we postpone our joy to another world? Let us get all we can of the good between the cradle and the grave, all that we can of the truly dramatic. If, when death comes, that is the end, we have at least made the best of this life.
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Catholicism is contrary to human liberty. Catholicism bases salvation upon belief. Catholicism teaches man to trample his reason under foot. And for that reason it is wrong.
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If there is a God, there should be no slaves.
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The more liberty you give away the more you will have.
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Do not trust those in whom the compulsion to punish is strong.
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It seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us alike.
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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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For the most part we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. Our beliefs, like the fashion of our garments, depend on where we were born. We are molded and fashioned by our surroundings.
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Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music.
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The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.
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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 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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I have no confidence in any religion that can be demonstrated only to children.
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I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in this.
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Christianity did not come with tidings of great joy, but with a message of eternal grief. It came with the threat of everlasting torture on its lips. It meant war on earth and perdition hereafter.
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A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.
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I found that the clergy did not understand their own book.
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The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know.
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Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.
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