Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the d…

Robert Green Ingersoll
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Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge! ✨ Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). The works of Robert G. Ingersoll, p.18, Library of Alexandria
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