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" Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded. "
Christopher Hitchens
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" I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness. "
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" When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early. "
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" To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid. "
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" Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting 'O.K.' has deposed the more affirmative 'Yes,' so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of 'like' are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness. "
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" I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read - if not indeed write - the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger? "
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" I feel upsettingly de-natured. If Penelope Cruz were one of my nurses, I wouldn't even notice. "
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" I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living. "
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" I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply. "
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" I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing. "
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" Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.' "
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" Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected. "
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" My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either. "
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" When you hear people demanding that the Ten Commandments be displayed in courtrooms and schoolrooms, always be sure to ask which set. It works every time. "
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" 'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age. "
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" I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there's no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That's all crap. "
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" Well, we can't say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it. "
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" A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular. "
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" Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments. "
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" What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. "
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" No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis. "
Christopher Hitchens
" I don't even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much. "
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" The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes. "
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" I don't think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way. "
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" I'm not a sheep. "
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" The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply. "
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" It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends. "
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" If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument. "
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" George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism. "
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" Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be. "
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" Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God. "
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