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Robert Green Ingersoll

(11 Aug 1833 - 21 Jul 1899)

American lawyer and politician who was a trial lawyer, attorney general of Illinois (1867-69) and also was notable as an agnostic lecturer, attacking popular Christian beliefs.

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We must remember that in nature there are neither rewards nor punishments—there are consequences.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

'Some Reasons Why' (1896) In Lectures and Essays (1907), Series 3, 31.

See also: | Nature (243) | Punishment (2) | Reward (7)

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