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Do what we will, the Colorado will one day find an unimpeded way to the sea.

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Robert Green Ingersoll

The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.

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Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.

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The Emperor Constantine, who lifted Christianity into power, murdered his wife Fausta, and his eldest son Crispus, the same year that he convened the Council of Nice to decide whether Jesus Christ was a man or the Son of God. The council decided that Christ was consubstantial with the father. This was in the year 325. We are thus indebted to a wife-murderer for settling the vexed question of the divinity of the Savior.

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