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Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. It is far better to be free, to leave the forts and barricades of fear, to stand erect and face the future with a smile. It is far better to give yourself sometimes to negligence, to drift with wave and tide, with the blind force of the world, to think and dream, to forget the chains and limitations of the breathing life, to forget purpose and object, to lounge in the picture ga..
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development
dream
facts
fear
feeling
free
future
gods
heart
inspirational
joy
knowledge
purpose
reform
slavery
thought
threat
weak
worship
burden
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The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.
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atheism
pragmatism
proactive
responsibility
true-religion
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Reason, Observation and Experience -- the Holy Trinity of Science -- have taught us that happiness is the only good; that the time to be happy is now, and the way to be happy is to make others so. This is enough for us. In this belief we are content to live and die. If by any possibility the existence of a power superior to, and independent of, nature shall be demonstrated, there will then be time enough to kneel. Until then, let us stand e..
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content
experience
happiness
holy-trinity
hope
inspiration
nature
observation
reason
science
supernatural
trinity
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Kindness is strength. Good-nature is often mistaken for virtue, and good health sometimes passes for genius. Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm. Intelligence is not the foundation of arrogance. Insolence is not logic. Epithets are the arguments of malice.
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arrogance
epithets
genius
good-nature
insolence
intelligence
kindness
logic
malice
serene
strength
virtue
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Justice is the only worship. Love is the only priest. Ignorance is the only slavery. Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now, The place to be happy is here,
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happiness
how-to-be-happy
morality
place
time
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It has always seemed absurd to suppose that a god would choose for his companions, during all eternity, the dear souls whose highest and only ambition is to obey.
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eternity
obey
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Robert Green Ingersoll |
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This century will be called 's century. He was one of the greatest men who ever touched this globe. He has explained more of the phenomena of life than all of the religious teachers. . Think of the men who replied to him. Only a few years ago there was no person too ignorant to successfully answer , and the more ignorant he was the more cheerfully he undertook the task. He was held up to the ridicule, the scorn and contempt of the Christ..
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atonement
biology
charles-darwin
clergy
darwin
dogma
england
evolution
fact
false
fear
garden-of-eden
genius
geology
ignorance
investigation
myth
nature
origin-of-species
original-sin
orthodox
orthodox-christianity
reason
science
superstition
survival-of-the-fittest
true
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This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself. Keep your mind open to the influences of nature. Receive new thoughts with hospitality. Let us advance.
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hospitality
nature
rights
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