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Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.


R.S. Ingersoll

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really?

you are not a name
or a height, or a weight
or a gende...
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wasn't it first merely a thought a...
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...

Silence doesn't make it... bet...
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EMILY VANCAMP Women are truly, truly awesome.
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ROBERT G. INGERSOLL I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought ...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL There are times when a falsehood well told bridges over quite a difficulty, but in the long run, you...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL If there is any God, there is only one way to please him, and that is by a conscientious discharge o...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL The literature of many lands is rich with the tributes that gratitude, admiration and love have paid...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Voltaire made up his mind to destroy the superstition of his time. He fought with every weapon that ...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Every good government is made up of good families. The unit of good government is the family, and an...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL The walls of that grand edifice called a good character have to be worked at during life.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL We must remember that we have to make judges out of men, and that by being made judges their prejudi...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact wi...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own impriso...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL The great religious historian, Eusebius, ingenuously remarks that in his history he carefully omitte...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Heresy is what the minority believe, it is the real name given by the powerful to the doctrine of th...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, m...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to b...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -R. G. Ingersoll.
R. G. INGERSOLL Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL To prevent famine, one plow is worth a million sermons, and even patent medicines will cure more dis...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described: - One who wished to prese...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into po...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Homes make patriots. He who has sat by his own fireside with wife and children will defend it. Few m...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL These contradictions are gross and palpable and demonstrate that the New Testament is not inspired, ...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL A good way to make children tell the truth is to tell it yourself. Keep your word with your child th...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL How poor this world would be without its graves, without the memories of its mighty dead. Only the v...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL I find that in this day and generation, the meanest men have the lowest estimate of woman; that the ...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare...
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