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Robert G. Ingersoll - But it can all be summed up in...
But it can all be summed up in this: The average man regards the common as natural, the uncommon as supernatural. The educated man-and by that I mean the developed man-is satisfied that all phenomena are natural, and that the supernatural does not and can not exist. (Robert G. Ingersoll)

But it can all be summed up in this: The average man regards the common as natural, the uncommon as supernatural. The educated man-and by that I mean the developed man-is satisfied that all phenomena are natural, and that the supernatural does not and can not exist.

Robert G. Ingersoll

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