Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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- It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
- Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
- Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.
- The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
- We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.