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" I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators. "
Christopher Hitchens
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" I've been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world. "
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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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" Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic. "
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" Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul. "
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" I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do. "
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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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" I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again. "
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" I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s. "
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" Of course, I do everything for money. "
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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 feel upsettingly de-natured. If Penelope Cruz were one of my nurses, I wouldn't even notice. "
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" I'm not a conservative of any kind. "
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" Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars. "
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" To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist. "
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" Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. "
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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 I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting. "
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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. "
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" I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little. "
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" I don't have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I've been too lucky and that I'm over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated. "
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" I like surprises. "
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" I've proved to be as difficult to convert as I am to hypnotize. "
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" And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home. "
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" The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious. "
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" I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come. "
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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 consider myself to be that credulous. "
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" I still think like a Marxist in many ways. "
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