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"Death is the ultimate cessation of the individual Self."

"Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism."

"Most people do not mind dying, as long as that does not happen today."

"Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die."
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"When you go home you ought to go like a ray of light-so that it will, even in the night, burst out of the doors and windows and illuminate the darkness."

"I regard the rights of men and women equal. In Love's fair realm, husband and wife are king and queen, sceptered and crowned alike, and seated on the self-same throne."

"Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the long run, defeats itself."

"If God created the universe, there was a time when he commenced to create. Back of that commencement there must have been an eternity. In that eternity what was this God doing? He certainly did not think. There was nothing to think about. He did not remember. Nothing had ever happened. What did he do? Can you imagine anything more absurd than an infinite intelligence in infinite nothing wasting an eternity?"

"With every drop of my blood I hate and execrate every form of tyranny, every form of slavery. I hate dictation. I love liberty."

"Every religion in the world has denounced every other religion as a fraud. That proves to me that they all tell the truth - about others."

"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."

"The sciences are not sectarian. People do not persecute each other on account of disagreements in mathematics. Families are not divided about botany, and astronomy does not even tend to make a man hate his father and mother. It is what people do not know, that they persecute each other about. Science will bring, not a sword, but peace."

"Intelligence, integrity and courage are the great pillars that support the State. Above all, the citizens of a free nation should honor the brave and independent man - the man of stainless integrity, of will and intellectual force."
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