In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment; there are consequences.


Robert Ingersoll

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Peter...” She let her head fall back against the seat and sighed. “Let’s not go there.”
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One moment you are here, othere there, then there. Then you can't move!
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Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
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Be there next time when the happiness will visit you.
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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
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...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
So far as I am concerned, I think more of reasons than of reputations, more of principles than of pe...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Give the church a place in the Constitution, let her touch once more the sword of power, and the pri...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppres...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He w...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Perjury is the basest and meanest and most cowardly of crimes. What can it do? Perjury can change th...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak,...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of th...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain;...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Compare King William with the philosopher Haeckel. The king is one of the anointed by the most high,...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
If matter cannot be destroyed, cannot be annihilated, it could not have been created. The indestruct...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Whoever labors for the happiness of those he loves elevates himself, no matter whether he works in t...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
The great poets have sympathized with the people. They have uttered in all ages the human cry. Unbou...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
In my judgment, the American people are too brave, too charitable, too generous, too magnanimous, to...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
The real oppressor, enslaver, and corrupter of the people is the Bible
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Voltaire lighted a torch and gave to others the sacred flame. The light still shines and will as lon...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
Belief is not subject to the will. Men think as they must. Children do not, and cannot, believe exac...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
In my judgment, the woman is the equal of the man. She has all the rights I have and one more, and t...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
For the most part, we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
When the great ship containing the hopes and aspirations of the world, when the great ship freighted...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there do...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Neutrality is generally used as a mask to hide unusual bitterness. Sometimes it hides what it is - n...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
You need not go back four thousand years for heroines. The world is filled with them today. They do ...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
This century will be called ROBERT G. INGERSOLL It has always been a mystery to me how Adam, Eve, and the serpent were taught the same language. Whe...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL