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" The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare's glittering gold and gleaming gems. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Worthless
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" I concluded that all religions had the same foundation - a belief in the supernatural - a power above nature that man could influence by worship - by sacrifice and prayer. "
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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. "
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" 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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" 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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" If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith. "
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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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" An honest God is the noblest work of man. "
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" I regard the rights of men and women equal. In Love's fair realm, husband and wife are king and queen, sceptered and crowned alike, and seated on the self-same throne. "
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" Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science. "
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" Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice. "
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" 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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" In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God. "
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" It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead. "
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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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" 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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" They believed that every man should know how to read and how to write, and should find out all that his capacity allowed him to comprehend. That is the glory of the Puritan fathers. "
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" Nothing has been left undone by the enemies of freedom. Every art and artifice, every cruelty and outrage has been practiced and perpetrated to destroy the rights of man. In this great struggle, every crime has been rewarded and every virtue has been punished. "
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" There is no slavery but ignorance. "
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" Homes make patriots. He who has sat by his own fireside with wife and children will defend it. Few men have been patriotic enough to shoulder a musket in defense of a boarding house. The prosperity and glory of our country depend upon the number of people who are the owners of homes. "
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" Voltaire, as full of life as summer is full of blossoms, giving his ideas upon all subjects at the expense of prince and king, was exiled to England. "
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