Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: lawyer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 11, 1833 - July 21, 1899

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There is a slight problem with being a conceptual artist these days: You won't get paid. But this levels the field and takes the art of money out of the field of serious art. The only conceptual artists who would conceive of making money on the Internet are a lowbrow species known as hustlers.

Andrei Codrescu

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The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.

Sigmund Freud

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By the time I got to WWE, I had a lot more confidence and willingness to speak up.

Mick Foley

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I'm going to get up every morning at 6:30 to work out. Then, when I've kept with it all week, I give myself something I really want, like a new handbag or a piece of jewelry I'm coveting.

Molly Sims

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Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.

Ludwig von Mises

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I raced in London in the 2012 Olympics, and it was incredible to be a part of, with half a million people watching and then later seeing kids going back to cycle.

Jonathan Brownlee

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Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.

Dean Koontz

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As a family comedian, it is so wonderful seeing everyone from kids through to grandparents being entertained by you.

Bobby Davro

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Shortly after Pearl Harbor, FDR committed a most visionary act: He appointed a Harvard historian to write the official account of the U.S. Navy in World War II. Samuel Eliot Morison was given the rank of lieutenant commander, with the right to interview anyone of whatever status.

Alistair Horne

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I always write from a personal place - whether it be about my friends or myself or a story that I heard.

Sharon Van Etten

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No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

Thomas Hardy

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The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Thomas Jefferson

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