“A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.”
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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“Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.”
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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“Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.”
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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“My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.”
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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“The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.”
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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“We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.”
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.”
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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“I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.”
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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“Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.”
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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“Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.”
— 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.”
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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