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" Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

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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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" 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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" There is no common sense in going to the field to fight and leaving a man at home to undo all that you accomplish. "

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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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" Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book and creed and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free. "

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" I can imagine no sweeter way to end one's life than in the quiet of the country, out of the mad race for money, place and power - far from the demands of business - out of the dusty highway where fools struggle and strive for the hollow praise of other fools. "

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" Our fathers worshiped the golden calf. The worst you can say of an American now is, he worships the gold of the calf. "

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" Perjury is the basest and meanest and most cowardly of crimes. What can it do? Perjury can change the common air that we breathe into the axe of an executioner. "

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" If matter cannot be destroyed, cannot be annihilated, it could not have been created. The indestructible must be uncreatable. "

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" We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death. "

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" Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. "

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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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" I hope there is another life, for I would like to see how things come out in this world when I am dead. "

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" Let us account for all we see by the facts we know. If there are things for which we cannot account, let us wait for light. "

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" Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent, to borrower and lender both. "

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" In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God. "

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" It always has been and forever will be impossible for slavery or any kind or form of injustice to produce a great poet. "

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" When men are prosperous, they are in love with life. Nature grows beautiful, the arts begin to flourish, there is work for painter and sculptor, the poet is born, the stage is erected - and this life with which men are in love is represented in a thousand forms. "

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" Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell. "

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" The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it. "

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" Shakespeare pursued the highway of the right. He did not seek to put his characters in a position where it was right to do wrong. "

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" There is no slavery but ignorance. "

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" I will live by the standard of reason, and if thinking in accordance with reason takes me to perdition, then I will go to hell with my reason rather than to heaven without it. "

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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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" I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. "

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" How poor this world would be without its graves, without the memories of its mighty dead. Only the voiceless speak forever. "

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" Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. "

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