Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes

Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations of poverty, think of wealth as the mother of joy.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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We couldn't spend $91 billion if we wanted to.

Andrew Natsios

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In a city like New York, you're aware of the rich and poor.

John Updike

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I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city.

Tony Campolo

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To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.

Ruth Hubbard

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In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent.

Roman Polanski

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I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

Christopher Hitchens

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Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely to entail a great deal of trouble on the possessor.

Anne Bronte

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With 'Shameless,' 'Homeland' and 'American Horror Story,' these are all shows that don't follow a particular mold, and they are out-there. The acting is spectacular.

Shanola Hampton

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All the Abrahamic faiths are marked by violence.

Timothy Radcliffe

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You don't want to always put a bunch of sugar in you. Because your sugar gets high, it gets stuck in your blood, it gets stuck in your system. It makes you tired. You have the ups and downs.

Richard Sherman

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My parents decided - because they were not going to teach us anything Jewish at home - to send both me and my sister to a Jewish primary school. So I went to Kerem Primary School in Hampstead Garden Suburb. But, for me, that school really didn't work that well.

Noreena Hertz

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Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the federal bureaucracy.

Mark Kennedy

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