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" The great poet is a great artist. He is painter and sculptor. The greatest pictures and statues have been painted and chiseled with words. They outlast all others. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
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" What is it that distinguishes you and me from the lower animals - from the beasts? More, I say, than anything else, human sympathy - human sympathy. "
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" 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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" The doctrine of immortality rests upon human affection. We love; therefore, we wish to live. "
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" It always has been and forever will be impossible for slavery or any kind or form of injustice to produce a great poet. "
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" The more liberty you give away the more you will have. "
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" In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. "
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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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" 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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" Most people are Democrats because they hate something; most people are Republicans because they love something. "
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" There are so many societies, so many churches, so many -isms, that it is almost impossible for an independent man to succeed in a political career. "
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" 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. "
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Done
" A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy. "
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" Courage without conscience is a wild beast. "
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" The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down. "
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" Whoever labors for the happiness of those he loves elevates himself, no matter whether he works in the dreary shop or the perfumed field. "
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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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" Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. "
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" The literature of many lands is rich with the tributes that gratitude, admiration and love have paid to the great and honored dead. These tributes disclose the character of nations, the ideals of the human race. "
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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. "
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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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" 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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" Voltaire lighted a torch and gave to others the sacred flame. The light still shines and will as long as man loves liberty and seeks for truth. "
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Long
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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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" It is what people do not know that they persecute each other about. "
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" Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. "
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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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" 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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" Tolerance is giving to every other 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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" 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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