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Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#cost #crammed #easily #fairly #few

She didn't know whether she was running away from something or running to something, but she admitted that deep in her heart she wanted to go home. ↗

— Beatrice Sparks

#running-away-from-problems #home

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#heaven #liberty #little #men #tyrant

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#era #holiness #necessarily #our #passes

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#eternity #mountains #presence #transient

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#holy #observation #reason #science #trinity

The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#been #cash #church #down #heaven

The more liberty you give away the more you will have. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#give #liberty #more #will #you

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#claims #every #every man #gives #himself

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

#death #defies #down #duty #fate