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" It is what people do not know that they persecute each other about. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
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" It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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Born
" I want to tell you this: you cannot get the robe of hypocrisy on you so thick that the sharp eye of childhood will not see through every veil. "
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" The children of great authors do not, as a rule, become writers. "
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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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" Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself. "
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You
Giving
Right
" You have to change men physically before you change them intellectually. "
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Men
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Before
" All the men of wealth should remember that everybody in a community has got, in some way, to be supported. I want to see them so that they can support themselves by their own labor. "
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" The grandest ambition that any man can possibly have is to so live and so improve himself in heart and brain as to be worthy of the love of some splendid woman; and the grandest ambition of any girl is to make herself worthy of the love and adoration of some magnificent man. "
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Love
" 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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Government
Money
Me
" Walt Whitman defended the sacredness of love, the purity of passion - the passion that builds every home and fills the world with art and song. "
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Song
Art
Home
" Nothing is more despicable than to reach fame by crawling, position by cringing. "
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Reach
More
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" Voltaire! A name that excites the admiration of men, the malignity of priests. Pronounce that name in the presence of a clergyman, and you will find that you have made a declaration of war. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
War
You
Will
" Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Religion
Hell
Heaven
" The American people do not like neutrality. They would rather a man were on the wrong side than on neither. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
American
Side
People
" 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. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Lie
Partnership
Truth
" The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. "
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Civilization
Man
True
" I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. "
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Man
Inferior
I Am
" You cannot change the conclusion of the brain by torture, nor by social ostracism. But I will tell you what you can do by these and what you have done. You can make hypocrites by the million. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Brain
Change
Done
" 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. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Word
Writer
Work
" The walls of that grand edifice called a good character have to be worked at during life. "
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Grand
Good
Character
" In every age in which books have been produced, the governing class, the respectable, have been opposed to the works of real genius. "
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Class
Genius
Age
" A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers. "
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Better
Forgiveness
Need
" Many Americans do not understand that the officers of the government are simply the servants of the people. "
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Government
People
Servants
" We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of infinite space because we cannot conceive of so much matter that our imagination will not stand upon the farthest star and see infinite space beyond. "
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See
Time
Stand
" Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. "
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Pebbles
Places
Where
" All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon him does it for the sake of reformation, and really and truly loves him, and has his good at heart. Punishment inflicted for gratifying the appetite makes man afraid but debases him. "
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