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Every library is an arsenal.

— Robert G. Ingersoll

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  1. Every child should be taught to doubt, to inquire, to demand reasons. Every soul should defend itself - should be on its guard against fals…
  2. Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.
  3. Every brain is a field where Nature sows the seeds of thought, and the crop depends upon the soil.
  4. Every man should be mentally honest. He should preserve as his most precious jewel the perfect veracity of his soul. He should examine all …
  5. Each soul is crowned. Each soul wears the purple and the tiara; and only those are good citizens of the intellectual world who give to ever…
  6. Everything in nature tells a different story to all eyes that see and to all ears that hear. So, when we look upon a flower, a painting, a …
  7. Each nation has created a god, and the god has always resembled his creators. He hated and loved what they hated and loved, and he invariab…
  8. Facts need no pedigree; logic has no heraldry, and the living should not be awed by the mistakes of the dead.

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  • power
  • knowledge
  • books

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