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It is only when we discard the idea of a deity, the idea of cruelty or goodness in nature, that we are able ever to bear with patience the ills of life.

— Robert G. Ingersoll

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The present is the child, and the necessary child, of all the past, and the mother of all the future.

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I had rather live and love where death is king, than have eternal life where love is not.

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The more false we destroy the more room there will be for the true.

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