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I am an infidel today. I do not believe what has been served to me to believe. I am a doubter, a questioner, a skeptic. When it can be proved to me that there is immortality, that there is resurrection beyond the gates of death, then will I believe. Until then, no.

I am an infidel today. I do not believe what has been served to me to believe. I am a doubter, a questioner, a skeptic. When it can be proved to me that there is immortality, that there is resurrection beyond the gates of death, then will I believe. Until then, no.

Approximate author period: c. 1887 AD · industrial

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Luther Burbank
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Approximate author period: c. 1887 AD · industrial
Approximate period for the recorded attribution to Luther Burbank, based on documented lifetime 1849 to 1926. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q333419 (checked 2026-10-08). This is not a quotation composition date or independent authentication of its attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q333419 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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