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" If you wish to reflect credit upon your parents, accomplish more than they did, solve problems that they could not understand, and build better than they knew. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Better
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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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" Many Americans do not understand that the officers of the government are simply the servants of the people. "
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" The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. "
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" Whether there is another life or not, if there is any being who gave me this, I shall thank him from the bottom of my heart, because, upon the whole, my life has been a joy. "
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" I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. "
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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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" In France, the people were the sport of a king's caprice. Everywhere was the shadow of the Bastille. It fell upon the sunniest field, upon the happiest home. "
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" If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith. "
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Me
" 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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Heaven
Cowards
Thought
" 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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Me
" The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it. "
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Gentleman
Ignorance
" Wherever the sword of rebellion is drawn to protect the rights of man, I am a rebel. Wherever the sword of rebellion is drawn to give man liberty, to clothe him in all his just rights, I am on the side of that rebellion. "
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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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Power
Life
" Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. "
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Result
Happiness
" 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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" 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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" 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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Universe
Never
Will
" The great poets have sympathized with the people. They have uttered in all ages the human cry. Unbought by gold, unawed by power, they have lifted high the torch that illuminates the world. "
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World
Gold
" A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy. "
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Great
Darkness
" Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself. "
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Giving
Right
" Most people are Democrats because they hate something; most people are Republicans because they love something. "
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Hate
Because
" When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism. "
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Death
Fear
" Our fathers founded the first secular government that was ever founded in this world. Recollect that. The first secular government - the first government that said every church has exactly the same rights and no more; every religion has the same rights, and no more. "
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World
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" Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science. "
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Experience
Observation
" 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 man who has really won the love of one good woman in this world, I do not care if he dies in the ditch a beggar - his life has been a success. "
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Life
" It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to be as much in heredity as most people think. The children of the great are often small. "
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Think
People
" 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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Surroundings
World
Never
" 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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Cannot
Book
" The government, in my judgment, cannot create money; the government can give its note, like an individual, and the prospect of its being paid determines its value. "
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