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Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

World Action Road Through Holiness

It's important for me to go back into the ghetto, where I'm from. I still get my oxygen from there. I don't live in the ghetto anymore, but every time I go back, I'm still seeing the same things that I lived.

Live Time Me Seeing Back Ghetto

In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity. Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.

Winter Stars Art Simplicity Moon

If you're afraid of inflation, I think - and if you can bring yourself to have a long horizon - and when I say long, I mean ten to 20 years, not the usual ten to 20 weeks - that locking up resources in the ground is a terrific idea.

Jeremy Grantham

Yourself Think Horizon Long You Say

One of the things that I really admire about the Marvel motion pictures is that, in one year, 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier,' which was a taut political thriller, and 'Guardians of the Galaxy,' which was a cosmic comedy, came out, and they could not be more different, and yet they both felt very Marvel.

Winter Political Comedy America Year

I don't really like the word 'religion.' To me, that's like rules and regulations and paying money to send up prayers. That kind of all weirds me out, honestly.

Money Religion Me Rules Kind Out

The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.

John Wesley Powell

Art Language Speech Grand Canyon

For me, spiritual practice is a lot closer to art than science.

Science Art Spiritual Practice Me

When I disappear, I will disappear; there'll be nothing left.

Christian de Duve

Nothing Will Left Disappear

Young people don't want to be second to anyone. Everyone wants to be an overnight star. Look how many years I had to wait, how many roads I had to travel, how many songs I had to sing. And now I'm just beginning, never ending.

Roads Beginning Travel People Wait

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

Goals Wisdom Action Adjust Steps

I've grown up surrounded by Americans and to a very large extent feel American. It sounds strange because I seem to be so quintessentially English in everyone's mind - and perhaps I am. Perhaps it's quintessentially English to have a fascination with America.

I Am Mind American Feel America Up

Soul travel can be a general expansion of awareness and knowingness or conscious experience of the heavenly worlds.

Experience Soul Travel Awareness

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