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I suppose it can be truthfully said that Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

— Robert G. Ingersoll speech (1892)

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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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The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.

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By comparing long periods of time, we more clearly perceive the advance that has been made.

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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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