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First Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll
- Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and…
- The first step is for man to cease to be the slave of man. The second, is to cease to be the slave of the…
- Every human being should be taught that his first duty is to take care of himself, and that to be self-respecting he must be self-supporting.…
- This, in my judgment, is the highest philosophy: First, do not regret having lost yesterday; second, do not fear that you will lose tomorrow; third,…
- The first duty of man is to support himself - to see to it that he does not become a burden. His next duty is…
- The Declaration of Independence was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the right upon one…
- Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you…
- If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first…
- The only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence; and secondly, that we are rather sorry…
- The truth shall make you free, but first it shall make you angry.
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