Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes About Individuality
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To give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself.
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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions, -- some one who had the grandeur to say his say. I believe it was Magellan who said, The church says the earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence even in a shadow than in the church. On the prow of his ship were disobedience, defiance, scorn, and success.
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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.
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Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.
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I want no heaven for which I must give my reason; no happiness in exchange for my liberty, and no immortality that demands the surrender of my individuality. Better rot in the windowless tomb, to which there is no door but the red mouth of the pallid worm, than to wear the jeweled collar of a god.
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