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" Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

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" The place does not make the man, nor the sceptre the king. Greatness is from within. "

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

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" Every good government is made up of good families. The unit of good government is the family, and anything that tends to destroy the family is perfectly devilish and infamous. "

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" Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. "

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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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" Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself. "

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" Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations of poverty, think of wealth as the mother of joy. "

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" Freedom has invented every useful machine, from the lowest to the highest, from the simplest to the most complex. "

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" In the grave should be buried the prejudices and passions born of conflict. Charity should hold the scales in which are weighed the deeds of men. "

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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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" You have to change men physically before you change them intellectually. "

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" When you go home, fill the house with joy so that the light of it will stream out the windows and doors and illuminate even the darkness. It is just as easy that way as any in the world. "

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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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" 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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" For the most part, we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. "

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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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" 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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" The more liberty you give away the more you will have. "

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" The real sustains the same relation to the ideal that a stone does to a statue - or that paint does to a painting. Realism degrades and impoverishes. "

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" You need not go back four thousand years for heroines. The world is filled with them today. They do not belong to any nation, nor to any religion, nor exclusively to any race. Wherever woman is found, they are found. "

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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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" Kings had their clowns, the people their actors and musicians. Shakespeare was scheduled as a servant. It is thus that successful stupidity has always treated genius. "

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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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" The American people do not like neutrality. They would rather a man were on the wrong side than on neither. "

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" Intelligence, integrity and courage are the great pillars that support the State. Above all, the citizens of a free nation should honor the brave and independent man - the man of stainless integrity, of will and intellectual force. "

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" 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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