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" Few rich men own their property; their property owns them. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

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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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" They who gain applause and power by pandering to the mistakes, the prejudices and passions of the multitude are the enemies of liberty. "

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" George Eliot tenderly carried in her heart the burdens of our race. She looked through pity's tears upon the faults and frailties of mankind. "

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" I believe in living for this world - that's my doctrine - to make everybody happy that you can. "

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" In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. "

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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! "

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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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" So far as I am concerned, I think more of reasons than of reputations, more of principles than of persons, more of nature than of names, more of facts than of faiths. "

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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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" The mind cannot be securely anchored. If we do not advance, we go backward. If we do not grow, we decay. If we do not develop, we shrink and shrivel. "

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" Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows. "

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" The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare's glittering gold and gleaming gems. "

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" Many Americans do not understand that the officers of the government are simply the servants of the people. "

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" The religion that has to be supported by law is without value, not only, but a fraud and a curse. The religious argument that has to be supported by a musket is hardly worth making. "

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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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" Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. "

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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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" It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty and degradation of a people who supplemented the incomparable Declaration of Independence with the Fugitive Slave Law. "

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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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" 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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" The doctrine of immortality rests upon human affection. We love; therefore, we wish to live. "

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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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" The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppress individuality. They wish to please the public. "

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" I say, let us think. Let each one express his thought. Let us become investigators, not followers, not cringers and crawlers. If there is in Heaven an infinite being, he never will be satisfied with the worship of cowards and hypocrites. "

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" The truth is that nearly everybody is right about some things and wrong about most things; and if a man's testimony is not to be taken until he is right on every subject, witnesses will be extremely scarce. "

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" Science has nothing in common with religion. Facts and miracles never did and never will agree. "

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" They believed that every man should know how to read and how to write, and should find out all that his capacity allowed him to comprehend. That is the glory of the Puritan fathers. "

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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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" Voltaire, as full of life as summer is full of blossoms, giving his ideas upon all subjects at the expense of prince and king, was exiled to England. "

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