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" For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them. "
Christopher Hitchens
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" There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it's white noise. "
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" It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn't even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in. "
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" Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake. "
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" I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it's a certainty you'll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it's an awful process. "
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" The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal. "
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" I'm terrified of losing my voice. "
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" People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve. "
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" I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat. "
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" I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing. "
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" I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny. "
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" It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with. "
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" I worked out early on to give up things I couldn't do well at all. "
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" I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second. "
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