When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then - and not until then - will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher become a real and blessed truth.

Robert Green Ingersoll
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  2. Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love–you know, things I don't care about anymore. - Lady Gaga

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  5. Once you leave out all the bullshit they teach you in school, life gets really simple. - George Carlin

More Quotes By Robert Green Ingersoll
  1. Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

  2. In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

  3. He who refuses to stoop, who cannot be bribed by the promise of success or the fear of failure - who walks the highway of the right, and in disaster stands erect, is the only victor.

  4. In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments there are consequences.

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

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