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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. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

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" I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men. "

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" The religion that has to be supported by law is without value, not only, but a fraud and a curse. The religious argument that has to be supported by a musket is hardly worth making. "

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" Suspicion is only another form of cowardice. The man who suspects constantly suspects because he is afraid. Whenever you find a man with a free, frank, generous, brave nature, you will find that man without suspicion. "

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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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" How poor this world would be without its graves, without the memories of its mighty dead. Only the voiceless speak forever. "

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" This great question of predestination and free will, of free moral agency and accountability, and being saved by the grace of God, and damned for the glory of God, have occupied the mind of what we call the civilized world for many centuries. "

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" Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science. "

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" He who refuses to stoop, who cannot be bribed by the promise of success or the fear of failure - who walks the highway of the right, and in disaster stands erect, is the only victor. "

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" Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate. "

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