QUOTES by Robert Ingersoll
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"Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself."
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"Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate."
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"What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man."
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"The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others."
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"In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action."
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"Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak; the crafty and heartless have ensnared and enslaved the simple and innocent, and nowhere, in all the annals of mankind, has any god succored the oppressed"
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"It is a blessed thing that in every age someone has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions"
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"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences."
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"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense."
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"I combat those only who, knowing nothing of the future, prophesy an eternity of pain- those who sow the seeds of fear in the hearts of men- those only who poison all the springs of life, and seat a skeleton at every feast"
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"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."
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"I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men."
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"It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead."
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"The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself"
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"It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew god"
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"Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty"
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"Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm."
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"According to this account the promise of the devil was fulfilled to the very letter, Adam and Eve did not die, and they did become as gods, knowing good and evil"
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"If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man"
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"To argue with a man who has renounced his reason is like giving medicine to the dead"
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"He (Thomas Paine) saw oppression on every hand; injustice everywhere; hypocrisy at the altar; venality on the bench, tyranny on the throne; and with a splendid courage he espoused the cause of the weak against the strong"
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"I suppose it can be truthfully said that Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity"
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"If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce"
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"The history of intellectual progress is written in the lives of infidels"
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"There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor"
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"Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms."
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"The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future"
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"Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation."
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"I would rather live with the woman I love in a world full of trouble, than to live in heaven with nobody but men"
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"My creed is that; Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so."
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"Happiness is not a reward / it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment / it is a result."
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"If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith."
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"There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets."
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"But if the witnesses are inspired of God then there is no reason for their disagreeing on anything, and if they do disagree it is a demonstration that they were not inspired"
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