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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. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Does
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" In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action. "
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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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" Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others. "
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" It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" There is no slavery but ignorance. "
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" Science has nothing in common with religion. Facts and miracles never did and never will agree. "
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" I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. "
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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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" Most people are Democrats because they hate something; most people are Republicans because they love something. "
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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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Chain
Effort
" 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. "
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Great
Artist
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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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Surroundings
World
Never
" Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself. "
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Giving
Right
" There is a quiet about the life of a farmer, and the hope of a serene old age, that no other business or profession can promise. "
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Old
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" The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down. "
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Church
Heaven
Always
" Every religion in the world has denounced every other religion as a fraud. That proves to me that they all tell the truth - about others. "
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World
Truth
" In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. "
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Mountains
Presence
Clouds
" 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
" If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith. "
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Dollars
Pay
Me
" In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. "
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Listening
Night
Death
" 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. "
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You
Will
" If there is any God, there is only one way to please him, and that is by a conscientious discharge of your obligations to your fellow men. "
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Only
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" No system of religion should go in partnership with barbarism. Neither should any Christian feel it his duty to defend the savagery of the past. "
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Partnership
Past
" Nature is filled with tendencies and obstructions. Extremes beget limitations, even as a river by its own swiftness creates obstructions for itself. "
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Even
Nature
" Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell. "
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Heaven
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