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" Every fact in the universe will fit every other fact in the universe. A lie never did, never will fit anything but another lie made to fit it. Never, never! "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Universe
Never
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" I say that no man can be greater than the man who bravely and heroically sacrifices his life for the good of others. No man can be greater than the one who meets death face to face, and yet will not shrink from what he believes to be his highest duty. "
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" Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. "
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" I simply claim that what ideas I have, I have a right to express; and that any man who denies that right to me is an intellectual thief and robber. "
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" Whoever marries simply for himself will make a mistake; but whoever loves a woman so well that he says, 'I will make her happy,' makes no mistake. And so with the woman who says, 'I will make him happy.' "
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" The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it. "
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" No writer must be measured by a word or paragraph. He is to be measured by his work - by the tendency, not of one line, but by the tendency of all. "
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" Perish the infamous doctrine that man can have property in man. Let us resent with indignation every effort to put a chain upon our minds. "
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" He who refuses to stoop, who cannot be bribed by the promise of success or the fear of failure - who walks the highway of the right, and in disaster stands erect, is the only victor. "
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" An honest God is the noblest work of man. "
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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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" In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action. "
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" Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. "
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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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" There may be another life, and if there is, the best way to prepare for it is by making somebody happy in this. "
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" Religion is not theory - it is life. It is not intellectual conviction - it is divine humanity, and nothing else. "
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" I concluded that all religions had the same foundation - a belief in the supernatural - a power above nature that man could influence by worship - by sacrifice and prayer. "
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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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" Neutrality is generally used as a mask to hide unusual bitterness. Sometimes it hides what it is - nothing. It always stands for hollowness of head or bitterness of heart, sometimes for both. "
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" A good way to make children tell the truth is to tell it yourself. Keep your word with your child the same as you would with your banker. "
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" Voltaire made up his mind to destroy the superstition of his time. He fought with every weapon that genius could devise or use. He was the greatest of all caricaturists, and he used this wonderful gift without mercy. "
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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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" If the government can make money, what on earth does it collect taxes for you and me for? Why don't it make what money it wants, take the taxes out, and give the balance to us? "
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" The place does not make the man, nor the sceptre the king. Greatness is from within. "
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" The Catholics of Maryland were the first people on the new continent to declare universal religious toleration. Let this be remembered to their eternal honor. "
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" Man never had an idea - man will never have an idea, except those supplied to him by his surroundings. Every idea in the world that man has came to him by nature. "
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