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I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
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Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
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In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
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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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Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
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Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.
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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
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If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.
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Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.
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Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.
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Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
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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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In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
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