When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
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- Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
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- Do you not know that every religion in the world has declared every other religion a fraud? ...
- Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and...
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