American - Lawyer | August 11, 1833 - July 21, 1899
It is what people do not know that they persecute each other about.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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There are so many societies, so many churches, so many -isms, that it is almost impossible for an independent man to succeed in a political career.
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Our government should be entirely and purely secular. The religious views of a candidate should be kept entirely out of sight.
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As long as the people persist in voting for or against men on account of their religious views, just so long will hypocrisy hold place and power.
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If you wish to reflect credit upon your parents, accomplish more than they did, solve problems that they could not understand, and build better than they knew.
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The children of great authors do not, as a rule, become writers.
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Nature is filled with tendencies and obstructions. Extremes beget limitations, even as a river by its own swiftness creates obstructions for itself.
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The truth is that all great men have had great mothers. Great women have had, as a rule, great fathers.
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It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to be as much in heredity as most people think. The children of the great are often small.
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When men are prosperous, they are in love with life. Nature grows beautiful, the arts begin to flourish, there is work for painter and sculptor, the poet is born, the stage is erected - and this life with which men are in love is represented in a thousand forms.
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Shakespeare pursued the highway of the right. He did not seek to put his characters in a position where it was right to do wrong.
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The real sustains the same relation to the ideal that a stone does to a statue - or that paint does to a painting. Realism degrades and impoverishes.
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