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The more false we destroy the more room there will be for the true. (Robert G. Ingersoll)
Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense. View quote
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No man with a sense of humor ever founded a religion. View quote
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To hate man and worship God seems to be the sum of all the creeds. View quote
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As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers. View quote
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Whoever increases the sum of human joy, is a worshiper. He who adds to the sum of human misery, is a blasphemer. View quote
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If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith. View quote
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To give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself. View quote
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Nothing but truth is immortal. View quote
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Like an armed warrior, like a plumed knight, James G. Blaine marched down the halls of the American Congress and threw his shining lance full and fair against the brazen forehead of every traitor to his country and every maligner of his fair reputation. View quote
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It is incredible that only idiots are absolutely sure of salvation. It is incredible that the more brain you have the less your chance is. There can be no danger in honest thought, and if the world ever advances beyond what it is to-day, it must be led by men who express their real opinions. (Robert G. Ingersoll)
With their backs to the sunrise they worship the night. View quote
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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. View quote
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Intelligence is the only moral guide. View quote
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Liberty a word without which all other words are vain. View quote
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The way to be happy is to make others so. View quote
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It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead. View quote
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The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down. View quote
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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions. View quote
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The more liberty you give away the more you will have. View quote
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There is no slavery but ignorance. (Robert G. Ingersoll)
Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice. View quote
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Learn to love good books. There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing. View quote
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Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate. View quote
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I am a believer in what I call "intellectual hospitality." A man comes to your door. If you are a gentleman and he appears to be a good man, you receive him with a smile. You ask after his health. You say: "Take a chair; are you thirsty, are you hungry, will you not break bread with me?" That is what a hospitable, good man does -- he does not set the dog on him. Now, how should we treat a new thought? I say that the brain should be hospitable and say to the new thought: "Come in; sit down; I want to cross-examine you; I want to find whether you are good or bad; if good, stay; if bad, I don't want to hurt you -- probably you think you are all right, -- but your room is better than your company, and I will take another idea in your place." View quote
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