No one can control his own opinion or his own belief. My belief was fo…

Robert Green Ingersoll
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No one can control his own opinion or his own belief. My belief was forced upon me by my surroundings. I am the product of all circumstances that have in any way touched me. ✨ Robert Green Ingersoll (1909). Interviews
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