There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor
- Robert Green Ingersoll
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- Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and...
- The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all...
- Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
- Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is...
- Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
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- Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.
- The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.
- This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take...
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