A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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- 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.